Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-256) and index.
Contents
Chapters: 1. "For Strangers and Workmen": The Origins and development of Phiadelphia's tavern trade / 2. "Contrived For Entertainment": Running a tavern in colonial Philadelphia / 3. "Company Divided Into Communities": Tavern going in Colonial Philadelphia / 4. "Of Great Presumption": Public houses, Public culture, and the political life of colonial Philadelphia / 5."Council's of State": Philadelphia's taverns and the American Revolution
Summary
In Rum Punch and Revolution, Thompson shows how the public houses provided a setting in which Philadelphians from all walks of life revealed their characters and ideas as nowhere else. He takes the reader into the cramped confines of the colonial bar room, describing the friendships, misunderstandings and conflicts which were generated among the city's drinkers and investigates the profitability of running a tavern in a city which, until independence, set maximum prices on the cost of drinks and services in its public houses.Taverngoing, Thompson writes, fostered a sense of citizenship that influenced political debate in colonial Philadelphia and became an issue in the city's revolution. Opinionated and profoundly undeferential, taverngoers did more than drink; they forced their political leaders to consider whether and how public opinion could be represented in the counsels of a newly independent nation. [from the publisher]
The ordinances of the corporation of the city of Philadelphia. To which are prefixed, the Act of incorporation, and the several supplements thereto: together with other acts of Assembly, now in force, relative to the city of Philadelphia. With marginal notes and references
Germantown and the Germans : an exhibition of books, manuscripts, prints, and photographs from the collections of the Library Company of Philadelphia and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, October 1983 to January 1984
Lancaster County, PA connections : evidence of persons residing in other states or countries with a connection to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania : compiled from deeds recorded in Lancaster from 1770 to 1830
Transactions of the American Philosophical Society ; v. 43, pt. 1
Notes
"Part of old Philadelphia, a map showing historic buildings & sites from the founding until the early nineteenth century, compiled by Grant Miles Simon": 1 folded map in pocket.
