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.
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