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Rum punch & revolution : taverngoing & public life in eighteenth century Philadelphia / Peter Thompson.

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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 Philadelphia and, on the eve of the Revolution, just...

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Main Author: Thompson, Peter, 1960-
Other title:Rum punch and revolution.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©1999.
Series:Early American studies.
Subjects:
Philadelphia (Pa.) > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Philadelphia (Pa.) > History > Revolution, 1775-1783 > Social aspects.
Philadelphia (Pa.) > Social life and customs.
Taverns (Inns) > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History > 18th century.
Political culture > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History > 18th century.
Social aspects.
Manners and customs.
Political culture.
Taverns (Inns)
Pennsylvania > Philadelphia.
United States.
History.

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Call Number: F158.4 .T47 1999
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