Rum: A Social and Sociable History Tylers of Texas Published: 03/01/1989

Published: 03/01/1989

What elements in the evolution of the Western worldview might contribute to the actualization of a sustainable planetary culture

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Rum: A Social and Sociable History Tylers of Texas Published: 03/01/1989Rum arguably shaped the modern world. It was to the eighteenth century what oil is to the present, but its significance has been diminished by a misguided sense of old fashioned morality dating back to Prohibition. In fact, Rum shows that even the Puritans took a shot now and then. Rum, too, was one of the major engines of the American Revolution, a fact often missing from histories of the era. Ian Williams's book as biting and multilayered as the