Kirsten E. Wood

Broschiertes Buch

Accommodating the Republic

Taverns in the Early United States

Beschreibung

Argues that entrepreneurial, improvement-minded men integrated many village and town taverns into the USâ s rapidly developing transportation network and used tavern spaces and networks to raise capital, promote business, practice genteel sociability, and rally support for favoured causes - often while drinking the staggering amounts of alcohol.

Autor

Kirsten E. Wood is associate professor of history at Florida International University and the author of Masterful Women: Slaveholding Widows from the American Revolution through the Civil War.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press
• Seitenzahl: 354
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9781469675541
• ISBN-10: 1469675544
• Artikelnr.: 67739126