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

'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-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©1999.
Series:Early American studies.
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