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Category : Maryland
Languages : en
Pages : 676
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Maryland Genealogical Society Bulletin
Author: Every Home a Distillery
Author: Sarah H. MeachamPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801897912
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
In this original examination of alcohol production in early America, Sarah Hand Meacham uncovers the crucial role women played in cidering and distilling in the colonial Chesapeake. Her fascinating story is one defined by gender, class, technology, and changing patterns of production. Alcohol was essential to colonial life; the region’s water was foul, milk was generally unavailable, and tea and coffee were far too expensive for all but the very wealthy. Colonists used alcohol to drink, in cooking, as a cleaning agent, in beauty products, and as medicine. Meacham finds that the distillation and brewing of alcohol for these purposes traditionally fell to women. Advice and recipes in such guidebooks as The Accomplisht Ladys Delight demonstrate that women were the main producers of alcohol until the middle of the 18th century. Men, mostly small planters, then supplanted women, using new and cheaper technologies to make the region’s cider, ale, and whiskey. Meacham compares alcohol production in the Chesapeake with that in New England, the middle colonies, and Europe, finding the Chesapeake to be far more isolated than even the other American colonies. She explains how home brewers used new technologies, such as small alembic stills and inexpensive cider pressing machines, in their alcoholic enterprises. She links the importation of coffee and tea in America to the temperance movement, showing how the wealthy became concerned with alcohol consumption only after they found something less inebriating to drink. Taking a few pages from contemporary guidebooks, Every Home a Distillery includes samples of historic recipes and instructions on how to make alcoholic beverages. American historians will find this study both enlightening and surprising.
Voyagers to the West
Author: Bernard BailynPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307798526
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 721
Book Description
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Saloutos Prize of the Immigration History Society Bailyn's Pulitzer Prize-winning book uses an emigration roster that lists every person officially known to have left Britain for America from December 1773 to March 1776 to reconstruct the lives and motives of those who emigrated to the New World. "Voyagers to the West is a superb book...It should be equally admired by and equally attractive to the general reader as to the professional historian."--R.C. Simmons, Journal of American Studies
Heritage Quest
Author: Hamilton Family of Prince George's County, Maryland, to Monongalia and Preston Counties, (West) Virginia, Fayette County, Penna and Beyond
Author: John D. BaldwinReport of the Virginia State Library
Author: Virginia State LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Report of the State Librarian
Author: Virginia State LibraryPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Annual Report of the Library Board of the Virginia State Library to which is Appended the Annual Report of the State Librarian
Author: Virginia State LibraryPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Special reports and monographs are issued as part of some of the Reports.
Annual Reports of Officers, Boards and Institutions of the Commonwealth of Virginia
Author: VirginiaAnnual Report of the Library Board
Author: Virginia State LibraryPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 432
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