The Saloon: Public Drinking in Chicago and Boston, 1880-1920

By Perry Duis

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This colorful and perceptive study presents persuasive evidence that the saloon, far from being a magnet for vice and crime, played an important role in working-class community life. Focusing on public drinking in "wide open" Chicago and tightly controlled Boston, Duis offers a provocative discussion of the saloon as a social institution and a locus of the struggle between middle-class notions of privacy and working-class uses of public space.

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0252067819

ISBN13:9780252067815

Release Date:November 1998

Publisher:University of Illinois Press

Length:416 Pages

Weight:1.35 lbs.

Dimensions:1.2" x 6.0" x 8.9"

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Boston Business Business & Investing Cultural Food, Lodging & Transportation History Hospitality, Travel & Tourism Industries & Professions Massachusetts Politics & Social Sciences

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