...This chapter examines the interplay between alcohol and colonialism in Africa. Europeans brought their alcoholic beverages, attitudes, and consumption patterns with them to the rest of the world, and in Africa they encountered indigenous populations with their own alcoholic beverages and modes...

... on a more regular basis to the indigenous populations of regions as disparate as Peru, New England, and India. Eventually, as Europeans established permanent settlements, they planted vineyards, built breweries, and later constructed distilleries, making themselves self-sufficient in alcohol production...