Accommodating the Republic: Taverns in the Early United States

by Kirsten E. Wood

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469675544
• ISBN13: 9781469675541
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"