Taverns and Drinking in Early America

Sharon V. Salinger is chair of the Department of History at the University of California, Riverside.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Dutch and English Origins: For the "receiving and refreshment of travaillers and strangers"
Chapter 2. Inside the Tavern: "Knots of Men Rightly Sorted"
Chapter 3. Preventing Drunkenness and Keeping Good Order in the Seventeenth Century: "A Herd of Planters on the ground / O'er-whelmed with Punch, dead drunk we found"
Chapter 4. Eighteenth-Century Legislation and Prosecution: "Lest a Flood of Rum do Overwhelm all good Order among us"
Chapter 5. Licensing Criteria and Law in the Eighteenth Century: "Sobriety, honesty and discretion in the . . .masters of such houses"
Chapter 6. Too Many Taverns?: "Little better than Nurseries of Vice and Debauchery"
Chapter 7. The Tavern Degenerate: "Rendezvous of the very Dreggs of the People"
Conclusion
Notes
Index