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Sharon V. SalingerPublication Details
BookJohns Hopkins pbks. edJohns Hopkins University Press2004Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) E162 .S23 2004 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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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)Subject
- Taverns (Inns) — United States — History — 17th century
- Taverns (Inns) — United States — History — 18th century
- Drinking of alcoholic beverages — Social aspects — United States — History — 17th century
- Drinking of alcoholic beverages — Social aspects — United States — History — 18th century
- Social classes — United States — History — 17th century
- Social classes — United States — History — 18th century
- United States — Social life and customs — To 1775
- United States — Social conditions — To 1865
Notes
- Originally published in hardcover ed. by Johns Hopkins, 2002
Contents
- Dutch and English origins : for the "Receiving and refreshment of travaillers and strangers"
- Inside the tavern : "Knots ofmen rightly sorted"
- Preventing drunkenness and keeping good order in the seventeenth century : "A herd of planters on the ground/O’er-whelmed with Punch, dead drunk we found"
- Eighteenth-century legislation and prosecution : "Lest a flood of rum do overwhelm all good order among us"
- Licensing criteria and law in the eighteenth century : "Sobriety, honesty and discretion in the … masters of such houses"
- Too many taverns? : "Little better than nurseries of vice and debauchery"
- The tavern degenerate : "Rendezvous of the very dreggs of the people."
ISBN
- 0801878993
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