Rum Punch & Revolution
Subtitle: Taverngoing & Public Life in Eighteenth Century Philadelphia (Early American Studies)
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: December 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780812216646
Subjects: American history: c 1500 to c 1800; Social history; c 1700 to c 1800; United States - Colonial Period; History; History - U.S.; History: American; USA; United States - State & Local - General; History / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775)
First sentence: AS HE CONSIDERED THE PLACE of taverns in the development of his colony, William Penn was ever mindful of the biblical injunction "righteousness exalts a nation but sin is the shame of any people."