The Alcoholic Republic: An American Tradition
William J. Rorabaugh
320 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0195029909
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Language: English
Publish: September 17, 1981
18th Century19th CenturyAlcoholAmericanAmerican HistoryFoodFood and DrinkHistoryNonfictionReligion
Recreating America’s first fifty intemperate years, when, from 1790 to 1840, Americans drank more alcoholic beverages per capita than at any other time in history, Rorabaugh examines some of the reasons why Americans drank so much