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Author Thompson, Peter, 1960-

Title Rum punch & revolution : taverngoing & public life in eighteenth century Philadelphia / Peter Thompson
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©1999

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Description 1 online resource (265 pages) : illustrations
Series Early American studies
Early American studies.
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Ilustrations; Introduction; 1. For Strangers and Workmen: The Origins and Development of Philadelphia's Tavern Trade; 2. Contrived for Entertainment: Running a Tavern in Colonial Philadelphia; 3.Company Divided into Committees: Taverngoing in Colonial Philadelphia; 4. Of Great Presumption: Public Houses, Public Culture, and the Political Life of Colonial Philadelphia; 5. Councils of State: Philadelphia's Taverns and the American Revolution; Epilogue: All the Apparatus of Eastern Fable -- List of Abbreviations; Notes
Selected BibliographyAcknowledgments; Index of Tavernkeepers, Petitioners for Tavern Licenses, and Public Houses; General Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W
Summary 'Twas Honest old Noah first planted the VineAnd mended his morals by drinking its Wine.--from a drinking song by Benjamin FranklinThere were, Peter Thompson notes, some one hundred and fifty synonyms for inebriation in common use in colonial Philadelphia and, on the eve of the Revolution, just as many licensed drinking establishments. Clearly, eighteenth-century Philadelphians were drawn to the tavern. In addition to the obvious lure of the liquor, taverns offered overnight accommodations, meals, and stabling for visitors. They also served as places to gossip, gamble, find work, make trades, and gather news. In Rum Punch and Revolution, Thompson shows how the public houses provided a setting in which Philadelphians from all walks of life revealed their characters and ideas as nowhere else. He takes the reader into the cramped confines of the colonial bar room, describing the friendships, misunderstandings and conflicts which were generated among the city's drinkers and investigates the profitability of running a tavern in a city which, until independence, set maximum prices on the cost of drinks and services in its public houses. Taverngoing, Thompson writes, fostered a sense of citizenship that influenced political debate in colonial Philadelphia and became an issue in the city's revolution. Opinionated and profoundly undeferential, taverngoers did more than drink; they forced their political leaders to consider whether and how public opinion could be represented in the counsels of a newly independent nation
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-256) and index
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Subject Taverns (Inns) -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 18th century
Political culture -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 18th century
HISTORY -- United States -- Colonial Period (1600-1775)
Social aspects
Manners and customs
Political culture
Taverns (Inns)
Cafés.
Openbaar leven.
SUBJECT Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85100722
Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Social aspects
Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85100730
Subject Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 98027389
ISBN 9780812204285
081220428X
Other Titles Rum punch and revolution