Author Tom Standage is not only a historian, but also a technology editor at the Economist. In this imaginative account of human history, Standage takes his reader on a journey from the Stone Age to the 21st century through stories of six beverages: beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea and cola. Learn why the Romans considered wine to be classier than beer and how coffee relates to the revolution in this unique perspective of human history.

Standage is also the author of The Turk, The Neptune File and The Victorian Internet. A History Of The World In Six Glasses is published by Walker & Company.