Gin and the Gin Craze [ Food & Drink / Eating & Drinking / Social interaction ]
… to the throne of Britain in 1688. In The Fable of the Bees , one of the earliest references to gin in print, Bernard Mandeville explains the origins of the name and indicates that already in 1714 it was associated with the poor: ‘Nothing … gin increased exponentially in the first half of the century. Jessica Warner summarises the available data: 1 . Bernard Mandeville, The Fable of the Bees, or Private Vices, Publick [sic] Benefits (London: printed for J. Rorerts, 1714), …
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