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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.
Hamilton Family of Prince George's County, Maryland, to Monongalia and Preston Counties, (West) Virginia, Fayette County, Penna and Beyond
Author: John D. BaldwinHeritage Quest
Author: Report 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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Languages : en
Pages : 304
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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
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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: VirginiaMaking Habeas Work
Author: Eric M. FreedmanPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479858943
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
A reconsideration of the writ of habeas corpus casts new light on a range of current issues Habeas corpus, the storied Great Writ of Liberty, is a judicial order that requires government officials to produce a prisoner in court, persuade an independent judge of the correctness of their claimed factual and legal justifications for the individual’s imprisonment, or else release the captive. Frequently the officials resist being called to account. Much of the history of the rule of law, including the history being made today, has emerged from the resulting clashes. This book, heavily based on primary sources from the colonial and early national periods and significant original research in the New Hampshire State Archives, enriches our understanding of the past and draws lessons for the present. Using dozens of previously unknown examples, Professor Freedman shows how the writ of habeas corpus has been just one part of an intricate machinery for securing freedom under law, and explores the lessons this history holds for some of today’s most pressing problems including terrorism, the Guantanamo Bay detentions, immigration, Brexit, and domestic violence. Exploring landmark cases of the past - like that of John Peter Zenger - from new angles and expanding the definition of habeas corpus from a formal one to a functional one, Making Habeas Work brings to light the stories of many people previously overlooked (like the free black woman Zipporah, defendant in “the case of the headless baby”) because their cases did not bear the label “habeas corpus.” The resulting insights lead to forward-thinking recommendations for strengthening the rule of law to insure that it endures into the future.
Annual Report of the Library Board
Author: Virginia State LibraryPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 432
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