BOOK REPORT

“The History of the World in Six Glasses”



Abstract

This paper, will discuss special preparation done by the author for the book “The History of the World in Six Glasses”. Main theme of this paper is to analyze the author's humor, fairness & bias as well as material supporting each point. Also, evidences will be providing in order to justify the statement made. Critical analysis of this book will provide a clear picture of the author's ideas and presentation.

The history of the world in six glasses

Introduction

A history of the world in six glasses is a book in which, it explains a historical essay in every way, reorganizes and tells the story of humanity from an angle entirely original that is, analyzing the various stages of history through the drinks of each period typical (McCallister, 2009). This book is a great look at how beverages that we take for granted today were at the foundation of our development as a people. Beer and wine were accidental discoveries that provided the basis for primitive survival. Coffee took the place of beer as the morning beverage of choice, and tea laid the foundation for the English empire. But all of them played a vital role in the story of us, and how we became who and what we are today.

The availability of water has always bound the fate of humanity, generating fortunes and disasters, wars and prosperity, and yet the oldest and most widely used beverage is not the only one to have influenced our history. Five thousand years of photographing events, Tom Standage sheds new light on the affairs of man, reading through the drinks that have accompanied the fate, concurring, in ways more surprising, even to create them. Because, the sponge passed the lips of Christ were steeped in vinegar? Why did the sailors of the British fleet were healthier than those in France? What has forced the Chinese Empire to cede Hong Kong to the British? If archaeologists distinguish the ages based on the use of different materials, Standage shares referring to the beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea and Coca-Cola. Original and ironic, "A history of the world in six glasses" alternative stories and anecdotes to the truth of the documents, creating a short circuit between reality and legend exciting to meet experts and curious, but also able to offer a vision of "other" in history, which prefers small to momentous revelations, big secrets enclosed in a glass (Standage, 2005).

The six drinks in this book demonstrate the complex interplay of different civilizations and the interconnection of world cultures. They survive in our homes today, as memories of past ages buttons, fluid testaments of the forces that have shaped the modern world (Standage, 2005).Critical Analysis

Tom Standage is not a lousy writer; his prose is fluid and tasteless, like water. Neither issue is a poorly chosen topic, the analysis of the origins and consequences throughout the history of beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea and colas related by a broad but recent tradition of story lowercase letters, anecdotes ...