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Sinossi
Ci sono molti modi di percorrere la plurimillenaria storia dell'uomo. Tom Standage mette da parte fossili, documenti e manufatti, e legge l'evoluzione della civiltà umana (dal neolitico a oggi) attraverso la filigrana di sei bevande, ognuna delle quali si è rivelata a suo modo determinante in una certa epoca storica. Dalla birra degli Egizi alla Coca-cola, simbolo della globalizzazione contemporanea, dal vino dell'antica Roma al caffè, dai liquori al tè del colonialismo inglese; "Una storia del mondo in sei bicchieri" alterna divertenti aneddoti alla verità dei documenti, e ci regala una visione "altra" della storia dove alle rivelazioni epocali si preferiscono i piccoli, grandi segreti racchiusi in un bicchiere.
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- Pagine: 213
- Data di uscita: 14-09-2017
Recensioni
This book should really be called "A History of the Western World in 6 Glasses," as it doesn't consider the drinks of South America, Sub-Saharan Africa, Oceania, and much of Asia. Indeed, tea is considered only through the lens of the British empire, even though the formal Japanese tea service is ar Leggi tutto
"ছয় গ্লাসে পৃথিবীর ইতিহাস" আসলে ছয়টি জনপ্রিয় পানীয় (বিয়ার, ওয়াইন, এলকোহল, চা, কফি ও সোডা)-র উৎপত্তি, জনপ্রিয়তা ও এদের সাথে জড়িয়ে থাকা বিভিন্ন ঐতিহাসিক ঘটনার বর্ণনা (কোনোভাবেই পৃথিবীর পূর্ণাঙ্গ ইতিহাস নয়।) লেখক যা বলে বইটা শেষ করেছেন তা দিয়ে আলাপ শুরু করা যেতে পারে - "এরপর থেকে যখন বিয়ার Leggi tutto
An interesting and engaging way to learn about history. I found it fascinating. Will look on these beverages through new lenses now.
I seem to be in a phase where I like books that show me the hidden life of the everyday things all around us, especially food and drink. A few years ago I read "Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany", by Bill Bufo Leggi tutto
23 Feb 2015 - I read this book since my son recommended it to me, while he was reading it for his World History AP class this year. I see why he liked it and I generally did too. It is fun and breezy and covers some fascinating ground that is indeed important, and grossly undercovered in most books
This book, I've read twice. It takes you from the formation of beer and society in Mesopotamia, to the use of wine as currency and how wine types represented a social classification system in Greece and Rome. It went through spirits and colonial time: We only have whiskey because it took too long to Leggi tutto
Excellent book about 6 drinks (beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea and Cola) that impacted live of mankind through different ages.
বিয়ার, ওয়াইন, এলকোহল, কফি, চা, সোডা - ছয় রকমের পানীয় কীভাবে সদ্য সভ্য মানুষ থেকে একুশ শতক পর্যন্ত মানব সভ্যতার প্রতিটি বাঁকে উল্লেখযোগ্য অবদান রেখেছে সেই কাহিনী নিয়ে এই বই। ঝরঝরা অনুবাদে গল্পের ছলে সুন্দর সুন্দর সব তথ্য পেয়েছি বইটায়। পাঠক মাত্রই বইটা পড়ে অনেক কিছু জানতে পারবেন আর চমৎকৃত হবেন Leggi tutto
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