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Craze : Gin and Debauchery in an Age of Reason
Craze Gin and Debauchery in an Age of Reason
Author: Jessica Warner
Rotgut gin—cheap, widely available, and remarkably potent—was the overwhelming drug of choice among London’s working poor in the early 1700s. Sold for pennies in taverns and squalid gin shops, on street corners and even in jails, gin was the original opiate of the masses, plunging England’s capital into chaos and giving r...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780812968996
ISBN-10: 0812968999
Publication Date: 10/14/2003
Pages: 288
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Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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