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Author:
Meacham, Sarah Hand, 1972- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2008078022
Title:
Every home a distillery : alcohol, gender, and technology in the colonial Chesapeake / Sarah Hand Meacham.
Publisher:
Johns Hopkins University Press,
Copyright Date:
2009
Description:
xi, 187 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Brewing--History.--Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)--History.
Distilling industries--History.--Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)--History.
Housewives--Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)--History.
Home economics--Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)--History.
Sex role--Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)--History.
Social classes--Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)--History.
Drinking of alcoholic beverages--Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)--History.
Bars (Drinking establishments)--Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)--History.
Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)--Social life and customs--17th century.
Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)--Social life and customs--18th century.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
"It was being too abstemious that brought this sickness upon me" : alcoholic beverage consumption in the early Chesapeake -- "They will be adjudged by their drinke, what kind of housewives they are" : gender, technology, and household cidering in England and the Chesapeake, 1690 to 1760 -- "This drink cannot be kept during the summer" : large planters, science, and community networks in the early eighteenth century -- "Anne Howard-- will take in gentlemen" : white middling women and the tavernkeeping trade in colonial Virginia -- "Ladys here all go to market to supply their pantry" : alcohol for sale, 1760 to 1776 -- "Every man his own distiller" : technology, the American Revolution, and the masculinization of alcohol production in the late eighteenth century -- "He is much addicted to strong drinke" : the problem of alcohol -- A few recipes.
Series:
Early America
ISBN:
0801893127
9780801893124
OCLC:
(OCoLC)276994717
LCCN:
2008050544
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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