Rum Punch and Revolution: Taverngoing and Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia by Peter Thompson

Rum Punch and Revolution: Taverngoing and Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia

Early American Studies

Peter Thompson

296 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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'Twas Honest old Noah first planted the VineAnd mended his morals by drinking its Wine.--from a drinking song by Benjamin FranklinThere were, Peter Thompson notes, some one hundred and fifty synonyms for inebriation in common use in colonial Phila...

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