Periods overlap and value-laden labels are not historical facts. Present is publication-era, not current. Do not replace our source-verified American-whiskey timeline with this graphic; use it to identify claims for later comparison.
Evolution of the Cocktail Timeline; original analytical paraphrase of the supplied2010book.
The book divides cocktail history into named periods, including a Prohibition dark age, a Deco period, postwar industry, another dark age and a modern renaissance ending around the book's publication. These categories express the authors' interpretation of innovation and decline.
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Evolution of the Cocktail Timeline
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The book divides cocktail history into named periods, including a Prohibition dark age, a Deco period, postwar industry, another dark age and a modern renaissance ending around the book's publication. These categories express the authors' interpretation of innovation and decline.
Location and context
PDF pp.143–144; Evolution of the Cocktail Timeline. PDF ordinals, not inferred print pagination.
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Annotation
Periods overlap and value-laden labels are not historical facts. Present is publication-era, not current. Do not replace our source-verified American-whiskey timeline with this graphic; use it to identify claims for later comparison.
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