![]() ![]() Standage chose instead to use tea as a symbol for British Imperialism. The section regarding tea doesn’t discuss tea’s role in Chinese or Japanese history. In all the sections beside beer, Standage only focused on the drinks’ effects on European history. My other issue with the book was how euro-centric it was. I realize that there’s probably a good reason for this (the book would end up being massive for one), but I found myself wondering how Germany became famous for beer or the recent research coming out about tea’s anti-carcinogen properties. So for example, Standage used beer to define the early civilizations (such as Mesopotamia and Egypt) and so he only focused the discussion of the history of beer to those early civilization. The first is that the other primarily only talked about the beverage in regard to the era he was defining through the drink. I only have two major complaints in regard to this book. There were some sections which were stronger than others, such as the coffee and tea sections. Hell tea was one of the primary motivators for the expansion of the British Empire. I’d never stopped and thought about how radically these six drinks changed our history. ![]() I found the book to be interesting and the pacing was good. The book is split into six sections: beer, wine, liquor, coffee, tea, and Coca Cola. ![]() ![]() A History of the World in 6 Glasses is a nonfiction book which discusses six different beverages that radically changed the world and came to define certain eras in our history. ![]()
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