Taverns and Drinking in Early America

A look into the role of public houses, taverns, alcohol consumption in colonial American society. 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 gos