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Taverns and Drinking in Early America
Sharon V. Salinger
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| #1227221 in Books | Johns Hopkins University Press | 2004-06-30 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.06 x.79 x6.40l,.98 | File type: PDF | 328 pages | ||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Five Stars|By godmotherx4|A great addition to my family history library|3 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| tackles an ignored subject at the center of colonial life|By Gray one|My sixth great grandfather was a tavern keeper in colonial Reading, PA. Other than the well known complaints by famous travelers such a|||"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
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, business transactions, and small-town gossip sessions. Salinger explores the similarities and differences in the ro...
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