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Attribution
Sharon V. Salinger
Publication Details
Book, Johns Hopkins pbks. ed, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004
Description
At a time when drinking water supposedly endangered one’s health, colonists of every rank, age, race, and gender drank often and in quantity, and so taverns became arenas for political debate, business transactions, and small-town gossip sessions. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Taverns (Inns) · United States · History · 17th century · 18th century · Drinking of alcoholic beverages · Social aspects · United States · Social classes · Social life and customs · To 1775 · Social conditions · To 1865 · Salinger, Sharon V
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(LOWER LEVEL) E162 .S23 2004 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	E162 .S23 2004	AVAILABLE

Attribution
Woody Holton
Publication Details
Book, Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, 1999
Description
In this provocative reinterpretation of one of the best-known events in American history, Woody Holton shows that when Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and other elite Virginians joined their peers from other colonies in declaring independence from Britain, they acted partly in response to grassroots rebellions against their own rule. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Gentry · Virginia · History · 18th century · Social classes · United States · Revolution, 1775-1783 · Causes · Social aspects · Social conditions · Holton, Woody · Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture
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(LOWER LEVEL) E210 .H695 1999 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	E210 .H695 1999	AVAILABLE

Attribution
Carla Gardina Pestana and Sharon V. Salinger, editors
Publication Details
Book, University Press of New England, 1999
Description
This book was designed as a collaborative effort to satisfy a long-felt need to pull together many important but separate inquiries into the nature and impact of inequality in colonial and revolutionary America. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Equality · United States · History · 17th century · 18th century · Social classes · Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 · Revolution, 1775-1783 · 1783-1815 · Social conditions · To 1865 · Race relations · Pestana, Carla Gardina · Salinger, Sharon V
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(LOWER LEVEL) E188.5 .I54 1999 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	E188.5 .I54 1999	AVAILABLE