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Every home a distillery alcohol, gender, and technology in the colonial Chesapeake /

Meacham, Sarah Hand, 1972-

Every home a distillery alcohol, gender, and technology in the colonial Chesapeake / [electronic resource] : Sarah Hand Meacham. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. - xi, 187 p. : ill. - Early America . - Early America. .

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.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






Brewing--Social aspects--History.--Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)
Distilling industries--Social aspects--History.--Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)
Housewives--History.--Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)
Home economics--History.--Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)
Sex role--History.--Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)
Social classes--History.--Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)
Drinking of alcoholic beverages--History.--Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)
Bars (Drinking establishments)--History.--Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)


Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)--Social life and customs--17th century.
Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)--Social life and customs--18th century.


Electronic books.

TP573.U6 / M43 2009

641.2/1097409033

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