Author: Thomas HerttellPublisher: Gale and the British Library
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
An Expose of the Causes of Intemperate Drinking
Author: Thomas HerttellPublisher: Gale and the British Library
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Letters from Professor Stuart, of Andover, Lucius M. Sargent, Esq., of Boston, Gen. Cocke, of Virginia, and Rev. Justin Edwards, D.D., on the Maine Liquor Law
Author: In Public Houses
Author: David W. ConroyPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469600080
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
In this study of the role of taverns in the development of Massachusetts society, David Conroy brings into focus a vital and controversial but little-understood facet of public life during the colonial era. Concentrating on the Boston area, he reveals a popular culture at odds with Puritan social ideals, one that contributed to the transformation of Massachusetts into a republican society. Public houses were an integral part of colonial community life and hosted a variety of official functions, including meetings of the courts. They also filled a special economic niche for women and the poor, many of whom turned to tavern-keeping to earn a living. But taverns were also the subject of much critical commentary by the clergy and increasingly restrictive regulations. Conroy argues that these regulations were not only aimed at curbing the spiritual corruption associated with public houses but also at restricting the popular culture that had begun to undermine the colony's social and political hierarchy. Specifically, Conroy illuminates the role played by public houses as a forum for the development of a vocal republican citizenry, and he highlights the connections between the vibrant oral culture of taverns and the expanding print culture of newspapers and political pamphlets in the eighteenth century.
The Origins of Prohibition
Author: John Allen KroutPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Prohibition
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
The Chester Family
Author: Julia M. FriendPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Accommodating the Republic
Author: Kirsten E. WoodPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469675552
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
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.
Address to the Danvers Auxiliary Society for suppressing Intemperance, etc
Author: John W. ProctorProfits, Power, and Prohibition
Author: John J. RumbargerPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438418299
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
This is the first comprehensive study of America's anti-liquor/anti-drug movement from its origins in the late eighteenth century through the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment in 1933. It examines the role that capitalism played in defining and shaping this reform movement. Rumbarger challenges conventional explanations of the history of this movement and offers compelling counter-arguments to explain the movement's historical development. He successfully links the ethics of business enterprise and those of moral reform of society for the betterment of enterprise. The author reveals how readily economic power is transformed—first into social power and finally into political power in the context of a bourgeois democracy. He shows that the motivation driving this reform movement was not religiosity, but profit, and that anti-liquor capitalists viewed the "human equation" as determinant of America's prospect for creating wealth.
Annual Report of the New York State Board of Social Welfare and the New York State Department of Social Services
Author: New York (State). Department of Social ServicesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 1180
Book Description
Annual Report of the State Board of Charities of the State of New York
Author: New York (State). State Board of CharitiesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1184
Book Description