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A radical new history of gin-and a challenge to everything you think you know about its origins.

Gin is one of the world's most familiar spirits, wrapped in one of its most persistent myths: invented in Holland, adopted by England, and unleashed on London during the notorious eighteenth-century Gin Craze. The Spirit of Juniperdismantles this story.

Drawing on medical manuals, household records, excise documentation, and nineteenth-century chemical treatises, drinks historians Dr. Anistatia Miller and Jared Brown reveal that gin was never a single invention or the product of one place or moment. Instead, it emerged gradually-through medieval medical distillation, household spirit-making, expanding trade networks, and Britain's evolving tax and classification systems. Gin wasn't discovered. It was assembled.

Tracing the slow dissolution of boundaries between gin, genever, and hollands into a single industrial spirit, this book asks a bigger question: how do "origins" themselves get invented?

Perfect for readers of drink history, British social history, and the history of science and taxation-The Spirit of Juniperoffers a fresh, evidence-driven account of how gin became gin, from two of the field's leading authorities.