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>Date:         Mon, 17 Dec 2001 09:36:32 -0800
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>Subject:      Early Modern Alcohol Consumption
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>Date:         Sat, 15 Dec 2001 07:55:15 -0600
>From:         Frank Whigham <[log in to unmask]>
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>         Lawrence Stone says somewhere (in The Crisis of the Aristocracy, as I
>remember) that early modern English men and women drank about a gallon of
>beer a day. There must now be more recent scholarship that attempts to
>specify such matters as reliably as currently possible. Can anyone
>recommend what recent work this would be?
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>         Many thanks.
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>Frank Whigham