The Invention of Rum: Creating the Quintessential Atlantic Commodity - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Jordan B. SmithSeries:Early American StudiesPublish date:10/7/2025Pages:320
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Pennsylvania PressISBN-13:9781512828184ISBN-10:1512828181UPC:9781512828184Book Category:History, CookingBook Subcategory:Caribbean & West Indies, Beverages, United StatesBook Topic:Alcoholic, Colonial Period (1600-1775)Size:9.10 x 6.10 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.4506Product ID:SC1HPTZYR5
The Invention of Rum: Creating the Quintessential Atlantic Commodity
Making and consuming rum created a new means of profit that transformed the Atlantic world
It was strong. It was cheap. It was ubiquitous. Fermented and distilled from the refuse of sugar production, rum emerged in the seventeenth-century Caribbean as a new commodity. To conjure something desirable from waste, the makers, movers, and drinkers of rum arrived at its essential qualities through...Series: Early American Studies
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Pennsylvania PressISBN-13:9781512828184ISBN-10:1512828181UPC:9781512828184Book Category:History, CookingBook Subcategory:Caribbean & West Indies, Beverages, United StatesBook Topic:Alcoholic, Colonial Period (1600-1775)Size:9.10 x 6.10 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.4506Product ID:SC1HPTZYR5
Jordan B. Smith is Associate Professor of History at Widener University.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
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