Brewing Science, Technology and Print, 1700-1880
(Part of the Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century Series)
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How did the brewing of beer become a scientific process? Sumner explores this question by charting the theory and practice of the trade in Britain and Ireland during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. From an oral culture derived from home-based skills, brewing industrialized rapidly and developed an extensive trade literature, based increasingly on the authority of chemical experiment. The role of taxation is also examined, and the emergence...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0822965313
ISBN13:9780822965312
Release Date:January 2018
Publisher:University of Pittsburgh Press
Length:320 Pages
Weight:0.90 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"
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