Inn civility : urban taverns and early American civil society /

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Author / Creator:	Scribner, Vaughn, author.
Imprint:	New York : New York University Press, [2019] ©2019
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Series:	Early American Places
Subject:	Taverns (Inns) -- United States -- History. Manners and customs. Taverns (Inns) United States -- Social life and customs -- 18th century. United States. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13541493

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ISBN:	9781479815203 1479815209 9781479864928 1479864927
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	"'Inn Civility' explores Urban Taverns in the Early American society"--
Other form:	Print version: Scribner, Vaughn. Inn civility. New York : New York University Press, [2019] 9781479864928

Table of Contents:

Coffeehouse coteries: civil dreams of exclusivity and consumer power
"Citizens of the world"?: coming to terms with cosmopolitanism
"We that entertain travelers must strive to oblige every body": the messy reality of civil society
"Disorderly houses": rakish revelries, unlicensed taverns, and uncivil contradictions
"They will begin to think their united power irresistible": the Stamp Act and the crisis of civil society
"As far from being settled as ever it was": the revolutionary transformation of civil society.

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