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Kristen Burton is a cultural historian of the Early Modern Atlantic World and holds a doctorate in Transatlantic History. She specializes in the history of food and drink, specifically distillation and brewing in Early Modern Europe and the Atlantic World.
Her current book project, tentatively titled “The Drunkard’s Progress: How Alcohol Became an Intoxicant in the Era of Enlightened Medicine,” looks at the construction of alcohol as an intoxicant during the age of the Enlightenment. Looking at the rise of mass-produced distilled spirits across the Atlantic World in the mid-seveteenth century, this book focuses on the ways changing drinking practices clashed with Enlightenment philosophy that esteemed reason and the rational mind, leading to the creation of modern addiction theory. Look at us, getting tipsy in name of education.
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