| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 334 pages) : illustrations |
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Part I. Mobility. Wayside taverns : the transportation revolution and American self-fashioning ; Fitted up in a superior style : tavern improvements -- Part II. Enterprise. A statement of your account : the circulation of goods and credit ; Convenient to business : entrepreneurial networking and innovation -- Part III. Representation. Tavern legalities : orderly freedoms and republican accommodations ; Collecting the sentiments of the sovereign people : taverns and collective politics |
| Summary |
"People have gathered in public drinking places to drink, relax, socialize, and do business for hundreds of years. For just as long, critics have described taverns and similar drinking establishments as sources of individual ruin and public disorder. Examining these dynamics as Americans surged westward in the early nineteenth century, Kirsten E. Wood argues that entrepreneurial, improvement-minded men integrated many village and town taverns into the nation's rapidly developing transportation network and used tavern spaces and networks to raise capital, promote innovative businesses, practice genteel sociability, and rally support for favored causes-often while drinking the staggering amounts of alcohol for which the period is justly famous. White men's unrivaled freedom to use taverns for their own pursuits of happiness gave everyday significance to citizenship in the early republic. Yet white men did not have taverns to themselves. Sharing tavern spaces with other Americans intensified white men's struggles to define what, and for whom, taverns should be. At the same time, temperance and other reform movements increasingly divided white men along lines of party, conscience, and class. In both conflicts, some improvement-minded white men found common cause with middle-class white women and Black activists, who had their own stake in rethinking taverns and citizenship"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [269]-317) and index |
| Notes |
Kirsten E. Wood is associate professor of history at Florida International University |
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Print version record |
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Bars (Drinking establishments) -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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Bars (Drinking establishments) -- Economic aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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Infrastructure (Economics) -- United States
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HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775)
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Bars (Drinking establishments)
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Bars (Drinking establishments) -- Economic aspects
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Infrastructure (Economics)
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Manners and customs
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140534
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| Subject |
United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781469675558 |
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1469675552 |
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