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In Mixed Company - Taverns and Public Life in Upper Canada (Paperback)
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In Mixed Company - Taverns and Public Life in Upper Canada (Paperback)
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In Mixed Company explores taverns as colonial public space and how
men and women of diverse backgrounds - Native and newcomer,
privileged and labouring, white and non-white - negotiated a place
for themselves within them. The stories that emerge unsettle
comfortable certainties about who belonged where in colonial
society. Colonial taverns were places where labourers enjoyed
libations with wealthy Aboriginal traders like Captain Thomas, who
also treated a Scotsman to a small bowl of punch; where white
soldiers rubbed shoulders with black colonists out to celebrate
Emancipation Day; where English ladies and their small children
sought refuge for a night. The records of the past tell stories of
time spent in mixed company but also of the myriad, unequal ways
that colonists found room in taverns and a place in Upper Canadian
culture and society. Reconstructed from tavern-keepers' accounts,
court records, diaries, travelogues, and letters, In Mixed Company
is essential reading for tavern aficionados and anyone interested
in the history of gender, race, and culture in Canadian or colonial
society.
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