Every home a distillery [electronic resource] : alcohol, gender, and technology in the colonial Chesapeake / Sarah Hand Meacham.

By: Meacham, Sarah Hand, 1972-Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: Early AmericaPublication details: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009Description: xi, 187 p. : illSubject(s): Brewing -- Social aspects -- Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) -- History | Distilling industries -- Social aspects -- Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) -- History | Housewives -- Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) -- History | Home economics -- Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) -- History | Sex role -- Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) -- History | Social classes -- Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) -- History | Drinking of alcoholic beverages -- Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) -- History | Bars (Drinking establishments) -- Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) -- History | Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) -- Social life and customs -- 17th century | Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) -- Social life and customs -- 18th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 641.2/1097409033 LOC classification: TP573.U6 | M43 2009Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
"It was being too abstemious that brought this sickness upon me" : alcoholic beverage consumption in the early Chesapeake -- "They will be adjudged by their drinke, what kind of housewives they are" : gender, technology, and household cidering in England and the Chesapeake, 1690 to 1760 -- "This drink cannot be kept during the summer" : large planters, science, and community networks in the early eighteenth century -- "Anne Howard-- will take in gentlemen" : white middling women and the tavernkeeping trade in colonial Virginia -- "Ladys here all go to market to supply their pantry" : alcohol for sale, 1760 to 1776 -- "Every man his own distiller" : technology, the American Revolution, and the masculinization of alcohol production in the late eighteenth century -- "He is much addicted to strong drinke" : the problem of alcohol -- A few recipes.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"It was being too abstemious that brought this sickness upon me" : alcoholic beverage consumption in the early Chesapeake -- "They will be adjudged by their drinke, what kind of housewives they are" : gender, technology, and household cidering in England and the Chesapeake, 1690 to 1760 -- "This drink cannot be kept during the summer" : large planters, science, and community networks in the early eighteenth century -- "Anne Howard-- will take in gentlemen" : white middling women and the tavernkeeping trade in colonial Virginia -- "Ladys here all go to market to supply their pantry" : alcohol for sale, 1760 to 1776 -- "Every man his own distiller" : technology, the American Revolution, and the masculinization of alcohol production in the late eighteenth century -- "He is much addicted to strong drinke" : the problem of alcohol -- A few recipes.

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