The ships that sailed from the old continent to the New World took unknown alcoholic drinks and a different drinking culture along with them. Missionaries turned wine and high-proof liquor into a yardstick for morality, turned adventures into controllers, and speculators into profiteers. Kegs and bottles were weapons intended to determine the survival and fates of entire peoples. Ferlan's cultural history of drunkenness is addictive

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Claudio Ferlan, Bruno Kessler Foundation - Italian-German Historical Institute, Trento, Italy.