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Article: In Public Houses: Drink and the Revolution of Authority in Colonial Massachusetts
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- Contemporary Drug Problems
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- October 1, 1996
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In Public Houses: Drink and the Revolution of Authority in Colonial Massachusetts, by David W. Conroy (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995), 351 pp., illustrated, $35.95 cloth, $15.95 paper.
The title of David Conroy's superb study alerts us to his purpose: In Public Houses places us directly within the taverns of colonial Massachusetts, where we encounter proprietors, patrons, and the popular culture of drink in an immediate and engaging way. Further, the title underscores the very public nature of tavern life. From the 1630s to the 1770s, colonists increasingly used their drinking establishments as open forums where they boldly challenged the constraints first of sacred ...