This special issue follows our conference, which was held in October 2021 and attended by beer historians and … sociologists from the U.S., Europe and Australia. By taking beer as a lens to approach questions of knowledge transfer and … circulation, we seek to refine our historical understanding of the global entanglements of the beer industry. This is all the more …

The Mexican beer industry in general, and advertising in particular, contained both international and national … iconography from abroad with that from home. The trajectory of the beer industry as well as its marketing fit in with the …

Decades before beer brewing transformed into a truly global industry toward the end of the nineteenth century, Central … forged, new inventions tested, new beer sorts copied, and in which people, knowledge, and materials traveled back and forth … century, Central European beer brewing increasingly relied on technological innovation and scientific knowledge; brewers …

We investigate the impact of beer on mortality during the Industrial Revolution in 18th century England. Due to the … brewing process, beer represented an improvement over available water sources during this period prior to the widespread … of beer scarcity driven by tax increases, weather events, and soil quality, we show that beer scarcity was associated …