Pub / Philip Howell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Howell, Philip, author.

Series:

Object Lessons.

Object Lessons

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bars (Drinking establishments)--Psychological aspects--Great Britain .

Bars (Drinking establishments).

Drinking customs--Great Britain.

Drinking customs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (160 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2024.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The pub is an English institution. Yet its history has been obscured by myth and nostalgia. In this unique book, Philip Howell takes the public house as an object, or rather as a series of objects: he takes the pub apart and examines its constituent elements, from pub signs to the bar staff to the calling of "time." But Pub also explores the hidden features of the pub, such as corporate control, cultural acceptance and exclusion, and the role of the pub in communities.

Contents:

List of Figures Pre-Loading 1. Getting There 2. Getting Served 3. Settling In 4. Diversions 5. Last Orders Notes Select Bibliography Acknowledgements Index

ISBN:

9798765102343

9798765102336

9798765102329

OCLC:

1446181793