Carson, Gerald. The Social History of Bourbon: An Unhurried Account of Our Star-Spangled American Drink. Foreword by Mike Veach. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2010. Originally published 1963.
Carson surveys fermented and distilled drinks as food, medicine, hospitality, labor ration, trade good, and social custom in early America.
Gerald Carson, The Social History of Bourbon: An Unhurried Account of Our Star-Spangled American Drink (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky,2010; text originally1963), PDF sheets 20–28 (supplied303-sheet screenshot PDF; not print pagination).
Gerald Carson, The Social History of Bourbon: An Unhurried Account of Our Star-Spangled American Drink (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky,2010; text originally1963), PDF sheets 20–28 (supplied303-sheet screenshot PDF; not print pagination).
PDF sheet 28
PDF sheet 20
Carson, Social History of Bourbon, PDF sheets 20–28.
Chapter 1 — Drinks and Drinking in Early America
2026-09-29: corrected opening-only locator to the chapter-level paraphrase range. Historical social use is not evidence of medical efficacy. Health assertions21–22 must not become Academy advice. Ready only for attributed representation of this source, not clearance of all historical claims.
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