Between 1720 and 1751, the "gin craze" nearly overwhelmed London. Based on extensive research, Patrick Dillon's book follows the history of gin, or "geneva", from its introduction from Holland after the Glorious Revolution, to its role as the sustenance of the poor - a quick trip to oblivion in the squalid and diseased poverty of 18th-century London - and later to its resurgence in the Victorian Gin Palaces and prohibition America. This is the story of Madame Geneva's rise and fall. Gin-drinkers and sellers, politicians and distillers all add their voices to Patrick Dillon's vivid account of London's first drug craze, which takes us from the corridors of power to the cornfields of Norfolk, from the pulpits of reformers to the tenements of St Giles in the Fields.
- ISBN10 0747235694
- ISBN13 9780747235699
- Publish Date 6 May 2003 (first published 5 June 2002)
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 19 April 2005
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Headline Publishing Group
- Imprint Headline Review
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 368
- Language English