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Product Identifiers

PublisherJohns Hopkins University Press

ISBN-100801878993

ISBN-139780801878992

eBay Product ID (ePID)30235293

Product Key Features

Number of Pages328 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameTaverns and Drinking in Early America

SubjectUnited States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), Customs & Traditions, Essays & Narratives, Food, Lodging & Transportation / Hotels, Inns & Hostels

Publication Year2004

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaTravel, Cooking, Social Science, History

AuthorSharon V. Salinger

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight17.4 Oz

Item Length9.1 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2001-002796

Dewey Edition0

Reviews"A richly detailed study that helps us understand popular and genteel culture in early America, the place of drink in everyday life, and the relationship between law and perceptions of disorderly behavior."--Paul G. E. Clemens, Journal of American History, The most comprehensive survey to date of this curiously underinvestigated aspect of early American social life... [Contains] a wealth of illustrative and amusing anecdotes... Well researched and informative., "Salinger gives us the best description yet available of the nature of tavern life and the efforts of colonial governments to manage it."--Elaine Frantz Parsons, Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, "Offers a fresh perspective on one of the colonial period's most important social institutions and the drinking behavior that was central to it... Salinger's work is compelling throughout... A significant and satisfying book." -- Mark Edward Lender, American Historical Review, "A thorough overview of this often overlooked institution in early America." -- George Brown, North Carolina Historical Review, "The most comprehensive survey to date of this curiously underinvestigated aspect of early American social life... [Contains] a wealth of illustrative and amusing anecdotes... Well researched and informative."--Simon Middleton, William and Mary Quarterly, "Salinger's book offers the broadest study yet of the role of taverns in colonial life, and readers will find a good deal of useful information presented in clear and accessible prose."--Matthew Mulcahy, South Carolina Historical Magazine, "This important book offers the first recent attempt at a comparative synthesis combined with a general interpretation of tavern life."--Richard P. Gildrie, Journal of Southern History, "Taverns and Drinking in Early America pulls together the results of many other works focused more narrowly on particular colonies or regions and provides a much greater synthesis than we have ever enjoyed before... A well-written, very entertaining overview of an important subject." -- Daniel B. Thorp, Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Taverns and Drinking in Early America pulls together the results of many other works focused more narrowly on particular colonies or regions and provides a much greater synthesis than we have ever enjoyed before... A well-written, very entertaining overview of an important subject., Taverns and Drinking in Early America pulls together the results of many other works focused more narrowly on particular colonies or regions and provides a much greater synthesis than we have ever enjoyed before... A well-written, very entertaining overview of an important subject., Offers a fresh perspective on one of the colonial period's most important social institutions and the drinking behavior that was central to it... Salinger's work is compelling throughout... A significant and satisfying book., A richly detailed study that helps us understand popular and genteel culture in early America, the place of drink in everyday life, and the relationship between law and perceptions of disorderly behavior., ""This important book offers the first recent attempt at a comparative synthesis combined with a general interpretation of tavern life."", This important book offers the first recent attempt at a comparative synthesis combined with a general interpretation of tavern life., Salinger's book offers the broadest study yet of the role of taverns in colonial life, and readers will find a good deal of useful information presented in clear and accessible prose., Salinger gives us the best description yet available of the nature of tavern life and the efforts of colonial governments to manage it.

Grade FromCollege Graduate Student

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal394.1/3/0973

Table Of ContentAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Dutch and English Origins: For the "receiving and refreshment of travaillers and strangers" Chapter 2. Inside the Tavern: "Knots of Men Rightly Sorted" Chapter 3. 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" Chapter 4. Eighteenth-Century Legislation and Prosecution: "Lest a Flood of Rum do Overwhelm all good Order among us" Chapter 5. Licensing Criteria and Law in the Eighteenth Century: "Sobriety, honesty and discretion in the...masters of such houses" Chapter 6. Too Many Taverns?: "Little better than Nurseries of Vice and Debauchery" Chapter 7. The Tavern Degenerate: "Rendezvous of the very Dreggs of the People" Conclusion Notes Index

SynopsisSharon V. Salinger's Taverns and Drinking in Early America supplies the first study of public houses and drinking throughout the mainland British colonies. 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. Salinger explores the similarities and differences in the roles of drinking and tavern sociability in small towns, cities, and the countryside; in Anglican, Quaker, and Puritan communities; and in four geographic regions. Challenging the prevailing view that taverns tended to break down class and gender differences, Salinger persuasively argues they did not signal social change so much as buttress custom and encourage exclusion., "Offers a fresh perspective on one of the colonial period's most important social institutions and the drinking behavior that was central to it... Salinger's work is compelling throughout... A significant and satisfying book." -- American Historical Review, Sharon V. Salinger's Taverns and Drinking in Early America supplies the first study of public houses and drinking throughout the mainland British colonies. 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, ......

LC Classification NumberE162