Beeronomics: how beer explains the world

Introduction: from monasteries to multinationals and back

The world's oldest profession: brewing in the cradle of civilization

A revolution every thousand years: how hops jump-started commercial brewing in medieval Europe

The brew that launched a thousand ships: how porter paid for the British Royal Navy

A revolution every thousand years, part II: how bottom fermentation made beer the darling of the scientific and industrial revolutions

How tv killed the local brewery

Beer monopoly: how the Belgian beer barons dethroned the king

Socialist lubricant: liberalization, takeovers, and restructuring the East European brewing Industry

The Belgian white: reincarnation of an old world brew

The Reinheitsgebot: protection against competition or contamination?

From land to brand: how nineteenth-century nationalist politics planted the seeds for the global trademark battle over "Budweiser"

The great convergence: the fall of the beer-drinking nation and the rise of the beer-drinking world

From vodka to baltika: deciphering Russia's recent love affair with beer

Trading water or terroir?: the changing nature of the beer trade

Craft nation: how Belgium's "peasant beers" became the best in the world

Hop heads and localholics: strategies of the American craft beer movement

Conclusion: how beer explains the world.