Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • At the Margins of the Atlantic World: Caribbean Rum in the Seventeenth Century
  • Rum's Threat to Competing Alcohol Industries in the Eighteenth Century
  • Ancestors and Alcohol in Africa and the Caribbean
  • Alcoholic Marronage: Identity, Danger, and Escape in Caribbean Slave Societies
  • Taming Rum in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
  • Rum and Economic Survival in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.