American-whiskey context or explicitly comparative research; retain attribution and limits.
Curtis, revised-and-updated2018edition; PDF page numbers are supplied-file positions, not inferred print pagination. Author interpretation and visits are time-bound; claims of colonial rum flavor speculative; no modern legal definition inferred.
Curtis contrasts a reconstructed Philadelphia tavern serving modern spiced rum with a themed Cuban venue pursuing authentic mint/cane technique. His thesis is history changes rum, not a monocausal rum-changed-the-world thesis.
PDF 6-14
Rum as interpretive lens and constructed authenticity
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Evidence
Curtis contrasts a reconstructed Philadelphia tavern serving modern spiced rum with a themed Cuban venue pursuing authentic mint/cane technique. His thesis is history changes rum, not a monocausal rum-changed-the-world thesis.
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Curtis2018, supplied PDF 6-14. Rum as interpretive lens and constructed authenticity. Full supplied-file reading and visual review complete.
Author interpretation and visits are time-bound; claims of colonial rum flavor speculative; no modern legal definition inferred.
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Literature Note 