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Index
Cover
Beeronomics: How Beer Explains the World
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
About the Authors
Introduction: From Monasteries to Multinationals and Back
How Beer Explains the World
1: The World´s Oldest Profession: Brewing in the Cradle of Civilization
The World´s Oldest Profession
The Great Wine Divide
Of Monks and Men
2: A Revolution Every Thousand Years: How Hops Jump-Started Commercial Brewing in Medieval Europe
All About the Additives
Brauhaus der Hansa
The Low Countries: Stuck in a Gruit
3: The Brew that Launched a Thousand Ships: How Porter Paid for the British Royal Navy
The Myth of Free-Trade Britain and Fortress France
Protestantism, Constitutional Government, and Beer
Rise of the Brewgeoisie
Beer Cartel
Opposition from Unlikely Bedfellows
4: A Revolution Every Thousand Years, Part II: How Bottom Fermentation Made Beer the Darling of the Scientific and Industrial Revolutions
From Monks to Scientists
Another Revolution is Brewing
Turbulence in Twentieth-Century Beer Markets
5: How TV Killed the Local Brewery
From Public Houses to Levittown
The Great American Pastime
Determining Cause and Effect
The US: Leader in Television and Macrobrewing
6: Beer Monopoly: How the Belgian Beer Barons Dethroned the King
Why Anheuser Busch Didn´t See it Coming
The Prescience of Interbrew
Beer Monopoly
7: Socialist Lubricant: Liberalization, Takeovers, and Restructuring the East European Brewing Industry
The Market Economy
The Takeover
The Restructuring
The Supply Chain
Vít´az Vít´az
The Subsidies (Back to the Future)
8: The Belgian White: Reincarnation of an Old World Brew
The Secret Gaarden
A Rising Star
Branding the White in the Land of the Lite
The Battle at Hoegaarden: Twenty-First-Century Redux
9: The Reinheitsgebot: Protection against Competition or Contamination?
Origins of the Reinheitsgebot
The Reinheitsgebot and the German Nation
How Weissbier Survived the Reinheitsgebot
The Reinheitsgebot and European Integration
Competition or Contamination?
10: From Land to Brand: How Nineteenth-Century Nationalist Politics Planted the Seeds for the Global Trademark Battle over “Budweiser”
A Tale of Two City Names
The Battle of the Budweisers
``Bud´´ as Geographical Indication
Justice Wears Beer Goggles
11: The Great Convergence: The Fall of the Beer-Drinking Nation and the Rise of the Beer-Drinking World
The Beer-Drinking Nation: Myth or Reality?
Beer Consumption and Incomes
The Global Convergence of Tastes
A Beer-Drinking World
12: From Vodka to Baltika: Deciphering Russia´s Recent Love Affair with Beer
The Politics of Vodka
Commercial Brewers and Commercial TV
Drinking Age
A Perfect Storm
13: Trading Water or Terroir?: The Changing Nature of the Beer Trade
American Import Market
Branding the Premium Export
Why ``The Most Interesting Man in the World´´ Will Not Always Buy the ``Reassuringly Expensive´´
Growing Beer Trade in the Twenty-First Century
14: Craft Nation: How Belgium´s ``Peasant Beers´´ Became the Best in the World
The Shakeout
The Prescient Preservationist
Surviving the Shakeout on Dark Beer
Saved by the Devil
Will the Belgian Party Last?
15: Hop Heads and Locaholics: Strategies of the American Craft Beer Movement
First Wave Local, Second Wave Craft
Jimmy Carter: Silent Hero of Craft Beer
Craft, California- and Colorado-Style
New Belgium: Culture of Ownership
Advertising Authenticity
Conclusion: How Beer Explains the World
Taxes, Religion, and Power
Science, Technology, and Industrial Restructuring
Globalization after the Fall of the Wall
Multinationals and Trade
The Craft Counterrevolution
Selected Bibliography
Index
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