Taverns and drinking in early America / Sharon V. Salinger
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002
 
Introduction
1

1
Dutch and English Origins: For the "receiving and refreshment of 
travaillers and strangers"
8

2
Inside the Tavern: "Knots of Men Rightly Sorted"
48

3
Preventing Drunkenness and Keeping Good Order in the Seventeenth 
Century: "A Herd of Planters on the ground / O'ver-whelmed with Punch, 
dead drunk we found"
83

4
Eighteenth-Century Legislation and Prosecution: "Lest a Flood of Rum do 
Overwhelm all good Order among us"
121

5
Licensing Criteria and Law in the Eighteenth Century: "Sobriety, 
honesty and discretion in the ... masters of such houses"
151

6
Too Many Taverns?: "Little better than Nurseries of Vice and Debauchery"
182

7
The Tavern Degenerate: "Rendezvous of the very Dreggs of the People"
210

 
Conclusion
241

 
Notes
247

 
Index
305

xi, 309 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm

0801868785 (hc : alk. paper)