In Public Houses: Drink and the Revolution of Authority in Colonial Massachusetts

Conroy, David W.

ISBN 10: 0807822078 / ISBN 13: 9780807822074

Editore: Univ of North Carolina Pr, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.A., 1995

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Near Fine in NEAR FINE jacket 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Brown cloth, sharp corners, 351 pgs., indexed, binding very good, interior bright.; 351 pages. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Codice articolo E116

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Titolo: In Public Houses: Drink and the Revolution ...

Casa editrice: Univ of North Carolina Pr, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.A.

Data di pubblicazione: 1995

Legatura: Hardcover

Edizione: First Edition.

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Through an innovative examination of inventories, licensing records, petitions, newspapers, sermons, and diaries, Conroy explores the development of tavern culture over time. As provincial society became more complex in the eighteenth century, so, too, did tavern life. In Boston different types of public houses emerged as society became more stratified, and in country towns taverns multiplied as population dispersed.
Specifically, Conroy illuminates the role played by public houses as a forum for the development of a vocal republican citizenry in conflict with royal rule. In doing so, he also highlights the connections between the vibrant oral culture of taverns and the expanding print culture of newspapers and political pamphlets in the eighteenth century.

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Book by Conroy David W