Book review: history of the world 6 points

History of the world is long and complicated. Although I have tried many experts authors such as Bill Bryson and h.g. Wells, history of condensed into a single book has very few. There is too little. Attempts, kitchen in the last 10 000 years caused so superficially books with very little depth or great tutorial such as graves, too inaccessible to the casual reader.

History of the world in 6 glasses, Tom Standage happy, successful, where others do not. Standage book gives the width of all the possible arguments to an impressive depth and focus. Rather than attempting to summarize the history of human focus on one topic, in this case drunk and then takes readers on a journey through time to see how its topic weaves together the past. Standage has a delightful writer, mixing its light hearted style savvy with exceptional historic, not only for a drink, but enough.

Despite my opinion of this book I have to admit that when I first picked up 6 points in world history, I don’t expect to enjoy it. Not only I am skeptical about this claim of each book to bring the old man in 300 pages or less, but not to drink, a drink, which discusses this book. Thus, the history learn these drinks not immediately appealing sound. What I learned that this book is a history of the world, through the story of 6 drinks not story telling 6 drinks, but rather as a header. Liquid substance more viable, people survive as a book in the introduction, second only in the air. The existence of other sources of drinking water and “limited and supervised the progress humanity and continues to shape history”. In fact, drinks all the time have more than our thirst satisfied; They were used as currency, drugs and worship. They were used as a symbol of wealth and power, as well as to appease the tools of the poor and oppressed.

History of the world, one for each drink 6 glasses of six sections, is that the first beer before civilization man with excess production of grain, most of which had been prepared. Old beer day were high won in vitamin B, vitamin only from meat. This allowed the population, more and more of their grain diet, effectively make the transition from hunter-gatherer to farming focus rings. In addition both cooked the first beer (to convert more power in sugar), beer was much safer for drinking water. Much improved way of life “released a portion of the population in need, in the areas of work and has allowed the emergence of specialist priests, administrators, writers and artisans. Not only human beer to civilization, but in many ways, it became possible to feed.

Excellent wine, in the book, he was instrumental in the Roman and Greek culture flourished. Like wine, not from the Mediterranean Sea, a Greek request for this drink opened a large seaborne trade, to spread their philosophy, politics, science and literature, long and wide, as well as modern Western thought. History of the world in 6 glasses emphasized how comes this progress and grew up in the official Greek drinking parties, entitled symposia. The widespread use of wine, put the Romans absorbed Greek culture. In regions of the world will be shown on a map, find a link to the book, if you drink wine in the Roman Empire at its height you later.

After thousands of years of hibernation was Western civilization, with the revival of the old Sa long caused in the Arab world. However, in an attempt to bypass this monopoly of Arab, European monarchs began massive fleets at sea. Age of exploration was of Arab knowledge of distillation can be significantly improved, a new range of beverages. Describes the history of the world 6 glasses, as popular as these abbreviated forms of alcohol (i.e., cognac, whiskey and rum), especially in the new American colonies “played a key role in establishing the United States of America.”

In this book the fourth coffee drink. Because of its effect on the mind coffee quickly became a beverage industry and intelligence. Replace the taverns as meeting point Café, complex “under the leadership of enterprises and financial institutions, newspapers and a breeding ground for revolutionary thought, especially in France, the creation of scientific”. History of the world in 6 glasses says, the effect of complex had coffee shop in Victorian culture, so far to go to an entire chapter to the book as “Internet cafes”.

While tea has many thousands of years, we have no influence on Western culture until the 17th century. Set as England’s national drink, importation of tea from China and India for the first time, trade and industrialization of unprecedented proportions. History of the world in 6 glasses describes the immense power of the British East India Company, “creates more revenue than the British Government and ruled many more people, more energy than any other company in history. This imbalance of power made a huge impact on British foreign policy and ultimately independence of the United States of America.

Like most drinks in the history of the world in 6 glasses discussed Coca-Cola was originally developed by Dr. drink. More than any other product is a “living symbol of American consumer capitalism” Coca-Cola. Rather than reduce problems Coca-Cola fully hard times were ahead through the depression and then travel together with our soldiers in World War II was a global phenomenon. The second book, Coca-Cola continues today around 30% liquid consumption. “

History of the world in 6 glasses, it is clear that human history is the history of our consumption. If we drink “liquid bread” in Mesopotamia, mulling revolution Cafe in Paris, or throw tea into the ocean to Boston leaves, these drinks have a profound impact, who we are. As Standage says in the introduction to his book “and in our homes today as life memories of past times, liquid force would survive, which forms the modern world”. The open provenance and could never look at your favourite drink, like new. I recommend this book to all thirst for knowledge about the world around them … or even if they are thirsty for a drink.