Taverns and drinking in early America

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Title:

Taverns and drinking in early America

Author:

Salinger, Sharon V. (Sharon Vineberg)

Personal Author:

Salinger, Sharon V. (Sharon Vineberg)

Publication Information:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2002]

Physical Description:

xi, 309 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Language:

English

Contents:

Dutch and English origins : for the "Receiving and refreshment of travaillers and strangers" -- Inside the tavern : "Knots of men rightly sorted" -- 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" -- Eighteenth-century legislation and prosecution : "Lest a flood of rum do overwhelm all good order among us" -- Licensing criteria and law in the eighteenth century : "Sobriety, honesty and discretion in the ... masters of such houses" -- Too many taverns? : "Little better than nurseries of vice and debauchery" -- The tavern degenerate : "Rendezvous of the very dreggs of the people."

Subject Term:

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.

Geographic Term:

United States -- Social life and customs -- To 1775.

United States -- Social conditions -- To 1865.

Electronic Access:

Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy033/2001002796.html