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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