Every home a distillery : alcohol, gender, and technology in the colonial Chesapeake /
Meacham, Sarah Hand,1972-
Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press,
2009.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"It was being too abstemious that brought this sickness upon me" : alcoholic beverage consumption in the early Chesapeake -- "They will be adjudged by their drinke, what kind of housewives they are" : gender, technology, and household cidering in England and the Chesapeake, 1690 to 1760 -- "This drink cannot be kept during the summer" : large planters, science, and community networks in the early eighteenth century -- "Anne Howard--  will take in gentlemen" : white middling women and the tavernkeeping trade in colonial Virginia -- "Ladys here all go to market to supply their pantry" : alcohol for sale, 1760 to 1776 -- "Every man his own distiller" : technology, the American Revolution, and the masculinization of alcohol production in the late eighteenth century -- "He is much addicted to strong drinke" : the problem of alcohol -- A few recipes.
Brewing
Distilling industries
Housewives
Home economics
Sex role
Social classes
Drinking of alcoholic beverages
Bars (Drinking establishments)