Gin【電子書籍】[ Shonna Milliken Humphrey ]

＜p＞Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Gin tastes like Christmas to some and rotten pine chips to others, but nearly everyone familiar with the spirit holds immediate gin nostalgia.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Although early medical textbooks treated it as a healing agent, early alchemists (as well as their critics) claimed gin's base was a path to immortality-and also Satan's tool. In more recent times, the gin trade consolidated the commercial and political power of nations and prompted a social campaign against women. Gin has been used successfully as a defense for murder; blamed for massive unrest in 18th-century England; and advertised for as an abortifacient.＜/p＞ ＜p＞From its harshest proto-gin distillation days to the current smooth craft models, gin plays a powerful cultural role in film, music, and literature-one that is arguably older, broader, and more complex than any other spirit.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Object Lessons is published in．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る