The Alcoholic Republic by Wj Rorabaugh
Between 1790 and 1840, Americans drank more alcoholic beverages per capita--gallons and gallons per person per year--than at any other time in our history. Here is a delightful history of America's first fifty intemperate years.
Rorabaugh has written a well thought out and intriguing social history of America's great alcoholic binge that occurred between 1790 and 1830, what he terms 'a key formative period' in our history...A pioneering work that illuminates a part of our heritage that can no longer be neglected in future studies of America's social fabric. * Journal of Psychohistory *
A bold and frequently illuminating attempt to investigate the relationship of a single social custom to the central features of our historical experience....A book which always asks interesting questions and provides many provocative answers. * Reviews in American History *
Great! The dual emphasis on common lifestyles and on reform, on qualitative and quantitative methods make it ideal for undergraduates. * Dan Woods, Ferrum College *
Great! The dual emphasis on common lifestyles and on reform, on qualitative and quantitative methods make it ideal for undergrads. * Dan Woods, Ferrum College *
This accessible monograph is grounded in a useful combination of social psychology and social history, providing undergraduates with an excellent example of how to use theory and evidence to elucidate an important and much-neglected episode in American history. * Simon Cordery, Monmouth College *
A bold and frequently illuminating attempt to investigate the relationship of a single social custom to the central features of our historical experience....A book which always asks interesting questions and provides many provocative answers. * Reviews in American History *
Great! The dual emphasis on common lifestyles and on reform, on qualitative and quantitative methods make it ideal for undergraduates. * Dan Woods, Ferrum College *
Great! The dual emphasis on common lifestyles and on reform, on qualitative and quantitative methods make it ideal for undergrads. * Dan Woods, Ferrum College *
This accessible monograph is grounded in a useful combination of social psychology and social history, providing undergraduates with an excellent example of how to use theory and evidence to elucidate an important and much-neglected episode in American history. * Simon Cordery, Monmouth College *
William J. Rorabaugh is professor of history at the University of Washington, Seattle. He is the author of The Alcoholic Republic: An American Tradition, The Craft Apprentice: From Franklin to the Machine Age, Berkeley at War: The 1960s and Kennedy and the Promise of the Sixties. Donald T. Critchlow is professor of history at Saint Louis University. He is the founding editor of the Journal of Policy History, and the author of a number of books, including Intended Consequences: Birth Control, Abortion, and the Federal Government and Studebaker: The Life and Death of an American Corporation. Paula Baker is associate professor of history at the Ohio State University and is the author of The Moral Framework of Public Life: Gender, Politics, and the State in Rural New York, 1870-1930, editor of Money and Politics, and co-editor of Major Problems in American History since 1945.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780195029901 |
| ISBN 10 | 0195029909 |
| Title | The Alcoholic Republic |
| Author | Wj Rorabaugh |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Year published | 1995-02-16 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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