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Every home a distillery : alcohol, gender, and technology in the colonial Chesapeake / Sarah Hand Meacham.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Meacham, Sarah Hand, 1972-
- Series:
- Early America.
- Early America
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Brewing--Social aspects--Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)--History.
- Brewing.
- Distilling industries--Social aspects--Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)--History.
- Distilling industries.
- Housewives--Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)--History.
- Housewives.
- Home economics--Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)--History.
- Home economics.
- Sex role--Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)--History.
- Sex role.
- Social classes--Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)--History.
- Social classes.
- Drinking of alcoholic beverages--Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)--History.
- Drinking of alcoholic beverages.
- Bars (Drinking establishments)--Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)--History.
- Bars (Drinking establishments).
- Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)--Social life and customs--17th century.
- Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.).
- Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)--Social life and customs--18th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (202 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- American historians will find this study both enlightening and surprising.
- Contents:
- "It was being too abstemious that brought this sickness upon me" : alcoholic beverage consumption in the early Chesapeake
- "They will be adjudged by their drinke, what kind of housewives they are" : gender, technology, and household cidering in England and the Chesapeake, 1690 to 1760
- "This drink cannot be kept during the summer" : large planters, science, and community networks in the early eighteenth century
- "Anne Howard
- will take in gentlemen" : white middling women and the tavernkeeping trade in colonial Virginia
- "Ladys here all go to market to supply their pantry" : alcohol for sale, 1760 to 1776
- "Every man his own distiller" : technology, the American Revolution, and the masculinization of alcohol production in the late eighteenth century
- "He is much addicted to strong drinke" : the problem of alcohol
- A few recipes.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8018-9791-2
- OCLC:
- 647881211
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