Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-323) and index.
Contents:
What is it, where is it? -- Sugar: the seed of rum -- The Caribbean connection: preparing the ground -- Barbados, the birthplace of rum -- Early settlers -- Thirsty saints -- The spirit of celebration -- The fishy side of rum -- The great spirit's appointed means -- The Caribbean, rum, and imperial liquidity -- Blame the French -- No taxation! -- Seven years that changed the world -- After the war was over -- Fast run to revolution: the spirit of 1776 -- Rum and the doctors -- High spirits -- Rum, buggery, and the lash: the navy and rum -- Rum around the world -- Voodoo spirit: Haiti -- Cuba Libre! -- Prohibition and the end of the heroic age of rum?
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