Accommodating the Republic (eBook)

Taverns in the Early United States

Kirsten E. Wood (Autor)

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2023
352 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-7555-8 (ISBN)

Infos

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 causesoften 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.12.2023
• Zusatzinfo: 14 halftones, 3 tables, notes, index
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
• Schlagworte: Black Americans in the early United States • Black citizenship in the early United States • citizenship in the early United States • Cultural Entrepreneurs • democratization in the early United States • drinking and alcohol in the early nineteenth century • hospitality in the early United States • Market Revolution • refinement and gentility in the early United States • Small Town America • Taverns in the early republic • temperance and prohibition in the early nineteenth century • transportation revolution • travel and transportation in the early United States • vernacular citizenship • women and travel in the early United States • women’s citizenship in the early United States
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-7555-2 / 1469675552
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-7555-8 / 9781469675558