Proprietary, Supply, and State Tax Lists of the City and County of Philadelphia ...
Author: Philadelphia (Pa.)
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Published: 1897
Total Pages: 866
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Author: Philadelphia (Pa.)
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Published: 1897
Total Pages: 866
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Published: 1907
Total Pages: 1500
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Samuel Hazard
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Published: 1899
Total Pages: 808
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of documents supplementing the companion series known as "Colonial records," which contain the Minutes of the Provincial council, of the Council of safety, and of the Supreme executive council of Pennsylvania.
Author: Pittsburgh, Pa. Carnegie Free Library of Alleghany
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Published: 1907
Total Pages: 1498
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Published: 1907
Total Pages: 706
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
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Published: 1907
Total Pages: 1500
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Published: 1907
Total Pages: 1090
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Peter Thompson
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2010-11-24
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 081220428X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Twas Honest old Noah first planted the Vine And mended his morals by drinking its Wine. —from a drinking song by Benjamin Franklin There 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 as many licensed drinking establishments. Clearly, eighteenth-century Philadelphians were drawn to the tavern. In addition to the obvious lure of the liquor, taverns offered overnight accommodations, meals, and stabling for visitors. They also served as places to gossip, gamble, find work, make trades, and gather news. In Rum Punch and Revolution, Thompson shows how the public houses provided a setting in which Philadelphians from all walks of life revealed their characters and ideas as nowhere else. He takes the reader into the cramped confines of the colonial bar room, describing the friendships, misunderstandings and conflicts which were generated among the city's drinkers and investigates the profitability of running a tavern in a city which, until independence, set maximum prices on the cost of drinks and services in its public houses. Taverngoing, Thompson writes, fostered a sense of citizenship that influenced political debate in colonial Philadelphia and became an issue in the city's revolution. Opinionated and profoundly undeferential, taverngoers did more than drink; they forced their political leaders to consider whether and how public opinion could be represented in the counsels of a newly independent nation.
Author: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
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Published: 1907
Total Pages: 1500
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William Henry Egle
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Published: 1899
Total Pages: 822
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