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

ISBN-13: 9780252067815 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 416 str.

Perry R. Duis

Opis

Presents evidence that the saloon, played an important role in the working-class community life. Focusing on public drinking in Chicago and Boston, this book offers a 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.