Author: Kirsten E. Wood
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2023-12-05
Total Pages: 353
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Pennsylvania State Library
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Published: 1859
Total Pages: 1474
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Published: 1859
Total Pages: 282
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Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2008-11-03
Total Pages: 449
ISBN-13: 3598440650
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Author: Arkansas. Supreme Court
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Published: 1859
Total Pages: 744
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Published: 1859
Total Pages: 738
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Arkansas. Supreme Court
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Published: 1840
Total Pages: 754
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Published: 1900
Total Pages: 900
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