Sharon V. Salinger's Taverns and Drinking in Early America supplies the first study of public houses and drinking throughout the mainland British colonies. At a time when drinking water supposedly endangered one's health; colonists of every rank; age; race; and gender drank often and in quantity; and so taverns became arenas for political debate; business transactions; and small-town gossip sessions. Salinger explores the similarities and differences in the roles of drinking and tavern sociability in small towns; cities; and the countryside; in Anglican; Quaker; and Puritan communities; and in four geographic regions. Challenging the prevailing view that taverns tended to break down class and gender differences; Salinger persuasively argues they did not signal social change so much as buttress custom and encourage exclusion.
#711009 in Books Johns Hopkins University Press 1995-09-01Original language:PortuguesePDF # 1 8.99 x .75 x 6.04l; .96 #File Name: 0801852501281 pages
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. An important book in the history of Islam; Africa and the AmericasBy GogolAn important book and a rare one in that it explains the history of a slave revolt in Brazil in which Islam played a prominent role. The author goes into detail concerning the conditions that slaves (and freedmen) lived in Brazil; how then interacted with one another and how they maintained their culture in extream circumstances.It is interesing in that the actual revolt itself is given considerably less space in the book but the supression of the revolt and the effects that it had on Africans in Brazil is discussed in detail.An interesing read especially in that it sheads some light on African culture in the Americas and how Africans maintained their culture there and also the efforts that white slave owners and the white population in general made in supressing that culture.1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Five StarsBy F. AzizuddinVery clear and scholarly.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. One StarBy LYPG116ok
