Grasse, Steven. Colonial Spirits: A Toast to Our Drunken History. Illustrated by Reverend Michael Alan. Abrams Image, 2016.
The opening frames beer scarcity and water distrust as settlement motives and discusses Indigenous encounters.
Steven Grasse, Colonial Spirits (Abrams Image, 2016), supplied PDF screens 18–26.
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Grasse, Colonial Spirits, PDF 18–26.
Beer, settlement and water narratives
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The opening frames beer scarcity and water distrust as settlement motives and discusses Indigenous encounters.
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Steven Grasse, Colonial Spirits (Abrams Image, 2016), supplied PDF screens 18–26: Beer, settlement and water narratives. These locators refer to the supplied screenshot PDF, not printed pagination. Research paraphrase; no verbatim quotation is being asserted.
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Plymouth single-cause story, generalized Indigenous fermentation and disease claims need independent corroboration; Pocahontas account is explicitly doubtful.
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