Composite popular narrative with speculation, including first-building claim in note184. Avoid reducing colonization to rum or repeating blanket claims about women's convictions.
A Short History of Drunkenness (2017), Australia
Rum is presented as currency, controlled access to labor and a political instrument through the Rum Corps, 1808 coup and hospital financing.
chap. 15, “Australia”
chap. 15, “Australia”
Paraphrase checked against supplied PDF. Verified means faithful source attribution, not independent corroboration. Composite popular narrative with speculation, including first-building claim in note184. Avoid reducing colonization to rum or repeating blanket claims about women's convictions. Crosswalk 2026-09-16: reader locator uses verified chapter/section. Original PDF 127–PDF 134 retained here for internal retrieval; legacy Page field is a PDF position, not printed pagination. No change to claim assessment.
Evidence
Rum is presented as currency, controlled access to labor and a political instrument through the Rum Corps, 1808 coup and hospital financing.
Location and context
Forsyth, A Short History of Drunkenness (2017), chap. 15, “Australia”. Original paraphrase, not quotation. The private PDF retrieval range is retained in Verification Notes.
Annotation
Composite popular narrative with speculation, including first-building claim in note184. Avoid reducing colonization to rum or repeating blanket claims about women's convictions.
Verification
Faithful attribution checked; historical truth not thereby established.