Every Home a Distillery : Alcohol, Gender, and Technology in the Colonial Chesapeake /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Meacham, Sarah Hand, 1972-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.
Series:Early America.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Bars (Drinking establishments) > Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) > History.
Drinking of alcoholic beverages > Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) > History.
Social classes > Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) > History.
Sex role > Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) > History.
Home economics > Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) > History.
Housewives > Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) > History.
Distilling industries > Social aspects > Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) > History.
Brewing > Social aspects > Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) > History.
Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) > Social life and customs > 18th century.
Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) > Social life and customs > 17th century.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • "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.

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