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  • Meacham, Sarah Hand,
     
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  • Brewing -- Social aspects -- History.
     
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  • Distilling industries -- Social aspects -- History.
     
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  • Housewives -- History.
     
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  • Home economics -- History.
     
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  • Sex role -- History.
     
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  • Social classes -- History.
     
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  • Drinking of alcoholic beverages -- History.
     
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  • Bars (Drinking establishments) -- History.
     
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  • Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)
     
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  • Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)
     
     
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    Every home a distillery : alcohol, gender, and technology in the colonial Chesapeake / / Sarah Hand Meacham.
     
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    Meacham, Sarah Hand, 1972-
    Title: 
    Every home a distillery : alcohol, gender, and technology in the colonial Chesapeake / / Sarah Hand Meacham.
    Publisher: 
    Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.
    Description: 
    xi, 187 p. : ill ; 24 cm.
    Series: 
    Early America
    Bibliography Note: 
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    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.
    Subject: 
    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 century.
    Added Series: 
    Early America.
    Catalog Source No.: 
    (OCoLC)ocn276994717
    ISBN: 
    9780801893124 (hardcover : alk. paper)
    0801893127 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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    TP573.U6 M43 2009American History, National Museum of39088015201882Checked InRequest Copy
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