Steven Shapin reviews Tom Standage’s A History

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posted Jul 28 @ 11:51 AM by Jason Kottke · gift link

Steven Shapin reviews Tom Standage’s A History of the World in 6 Glasses, a “social life of beverages”. Standage is one of my favorite technology/culture writers; he wrote about the telegraph in The Victorian Internet.