Useful bridge from frontier household production to nineteenth-century industrial whiskey.
The transition links drinking patterns and distillery consolidation to wider changes in infrastructure and market access.
Isolation and grain gluts once made whiskey a practical store of value. Canals, expanding markets, urban employment, and improved transport gave farmers alternatives and helped move production toward larger, more capital-intensive distilleries.
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Chapters Four–Five — Drinking economy and industrial transition
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Evidence
Isolation and grain gluts once made whiskey a practical store of value. Canals, expanding markets, urban employment, and improved transport gave farmers alternatives and helped move production toward larger, more capital-intensive distilleries.
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Start: 58
End: 68
Source section: Chapters Four–Five — Drinking economy and industrial transition
Context
The transition links drinking patterns and distillery consolidation to wider changes in infrastructure and market access.
Annotation
Useful bridge from frontier household production to nineteenth-century industrial whiskey.
Verification
Status: Verified
September 29 fresh audit: matched to supplied PDF sheets 58–68. These are PDF sheet numbers, not the print-edition pagination used in the index. Verification concerns source fidelity, not independent historical/scientific corroboration.