Taverns and drinking in early America / Sharon V. Salinger.

Author/creator Salinger, Sharon V.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoBaltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,
Descriptionxi, 309 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Supplemental ContentFull text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost
Subjects
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.

Contents Machine generated contents note: Dutch and English Origins: For the "receiving and refreshment of travaillers and strangers" 8 Inside the Tavern: "Knots of Men Rightly Sorted" 48 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" 83 Eighteenth-Century Legislation and Prosecution: "Lest a Flood of Rum do Overwhelm all good Order among us" 121 Like Licensing Criteria and Law in the Eighteenth Century:"Sobriety, honesty and discretion in themasters of such houses" 151 Too Many Taverns?: "Little better than Nurseries of Vice and Debauchery" 182 The Tavern Degenerate: "Rendezvous of the very Dreggs of the People" 210.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2001002796
ISBN0801868785 (hc : alk. paper)

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