Taverns and Drinking in Early America.(Book Review)

From: Journal of Social History | Date: March 22, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

Taverns and Drinking in Early America. By Sharon S. Salinger (Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. xi plus 309 pp.).

In Taverns and Drinking in Early America, Sharon V. Salinger offers a useful overview of the place and functions of taverns in the mainland American colonies. One of the great strengths of this book is that it draws our attention to the ubiquity of taverns in early America and to a paradox. Colonial public houses were both open public spaces and exclusive quasi-private clubs, and it is the increasing stratification of these sites of ...

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