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Taverns and drinking in early America / Sharon V. Salinger.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks E162 .S23 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Salinger, Sharon V. (Sharon Vineberg)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Social life and customs--To 1775.
- United States.
- United States--Social conditions--To 1865.
- Taverns (Inns)--United States--History--17th century.
- Taverns (Inns).
- Taverns (Inns)--United States--History--18th century.
- Drinking of alcoholic beverages--Social aspects--United States--History--17th century.
- Drinking of alcoholic beverages.
- Drinking of alcoholic beverages--Social aspects--United States--History--18th century.
- Social classes--United States--History--17th century.
- Social classes.
- Social classes--United States--History--18th century.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 309 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.
- Summary:
- American colonists knew just two types of public building: churches and taverns. At a time when drinking water was considered dangerous, everyone drank often and in quantity. The author explores the role of drinking and tavern sociability.
- 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."
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Salinger, Sharon V. (Sharon Vineberg). Taverns and drinking in early America.
- ISBN:
- 0801868785
- 9780801868788
- 0801878993
- 9780801878992
- OCLC:
- 49551853
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