The history of drink : $b A review, social, scientific, and political
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"The history of drink" by James Samuelson is a social, scientific, and historical review written in the late 19th century. It examines how intoxicating beverages arose, spread, and shaped morals, religion, law, and public health from prehistory to modern nations, arguing that excess has wrought great harm while avoiding rigid partisanship.
The opening of the work lays out its purpose: to fill a gap since Morewood’s early study, sketch a broad, impartial history of intoxicants, and inform present temperance debates without bowing to any “ism.” A detailed contents page maps a global survey. The first chapter disputes the claim that there is no instinct for stimulants, citing children, domesticated animals, Darwin’s observations of monkeys and baboons, natural fermentation, and widespread native drinks (palm-wine, koumiss), then contrasts “savage” drunkenness (African festivals, Laplanders) with moderating effects of culture, and notes prehistoric European lake-dwellers grew grapes and b
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