Taverns and Drinking in Early America

Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Introduction......Page 16
One - Dutch and English Origins: For the “receiving and refreshment of travaillers and strangers”......Page 23
Two - Inside the Tavern: “Knots of Men Rightly Sorted”......Page 63
Three - Preventing Drunkenness and Keeping Good Order in the Seventeenth Century: “A Herd of Planters on the ground / O’er-whelmed with Punch, dead drunk we found”......Page 98
Four - Eighteenth-Century Legislation and Prosecution: “Lest a Flood of Rum do Overwhelm all good Order among us”......Page 136
Five - Licensing Criteria and Law in the Eighteenth Century: “Sobriety, honesty and discretion in the . . . masters of such houses”......Page 166
Six - Too Many Taverns?: “Little better than Nurseries of Vice and Debauchery”......Page 197
Seven - The Tavern Degenerate: “Rendezvous of the very Dreggs of the People”......Page 225
Conclusion......Page 256
Notes......Page 262
Index......Page 320