Taverns and drinking in early America
By: Sharon V. Salinger.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 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.