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In public houses : drink & the revolution of authority in colonial Massachusetts /

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 p...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Conroy, David W.
Autor Corporativo: Institute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg, Va.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill, N.C. : Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia by the University of North Carolina Press, ©1995.
Colección:Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press Ser.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Puritan assault on drink and taverns
  • Laws versus popular culture
  • Liquor licenses and poor relief
  • The politics of taverns in Provincial Boston
  • The politics of taverns in the countryside
  • The public order of Revolution
  • Epilogue: After the Revolution
  • Appendix: Licenseholders, 1735-1776.