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Author: Sarah H. Meacham (Virginia Commonwealth University)
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.30cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.295kg
ISBN: 9781421409634
ISBN 10: 1421409631
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 27 May 2013
Recommended Age: From 17
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
A well-composed, clearly written, highly informative study that significantly contributes to our understanding of how alcohol was brewed, distributed, and consumed in the colonial Chesapeake area. -- Susan C. Imbarrato Journal of American History 2010 This exceptionally well-researched book provides important new information about alcohol practices in colonial America. -- W. J. Rorabaugh North Carolina Historical Review 2010 Meacham's style is eminently readable, informative, and entertaining. Her detailed 'Essay on sources' is particularly useful. This work would appeal to students of early American studies, American history, and women's history. -- M. Susan Anthony Journal of American Culture 2010 Meacham has studied and interrelated a broad variety of primary sources for this book: diaries, letters, account books, probate inventories and wills, cookbooks, court and local government records. The result is an eminently insightful, readable, and usefully annotated history. -- Carolyn Cooper Technology and Culture 2011 This book does a real service in putting free women's work (enslaved women receive far briefer attention) at the center of colonial experience... With its focus on the methods and organization of alcohol production, Every Home a Distillery will appeal to anyone interested in early business history. -- Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor Common-Place 2011 Meacham offers an engaging, thoughtful analysis of the gendered nature of alcohol production, using original sources and challenging historians to think in more complex ways about colonial men, women and gendered labor. -- Monica D. Fitzgerald Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 2010 Meacham convincingly argues that alcohol consumption was central to the lives of men and women in the colonial period... This book provides an important look at the gendered production of alcohol. It is useful to anyone interested in colonial history, women's history, or the history of alcohol. -- Gina Hames Journal of Social History 2011 What is instructive about Meacham's book is that it examines the whole landscape of drink production and consumption in the eighteenth-century Chesapeake and explores the linkages between domestic and commercial output, the tavern trade and the nature and impact of alcohol drinking... An interesting, well-written book that makes an important contribution to the literature. -- Peter Clark Enterprise and Society 2010 Anyone interested in daily life in the colonial Chesapeake would certainly benefit from reading this work. -- Alexa S. Cawley Journal of Southern History 2011 It is a great pleasure when one comes across a brilliant interpretation of primary sources... Meacham tells a most fascinating and unique story... Every Home a Distillery offers a penetrating look at how people produced and acquired alcohol in the Chesapeake, the microcosm that greatly influenced the creation of the United States. -- Cynthia D. Bertelsen Gastronomica 2011 Meacham's study is a welcome addition... By focusing her narrative on the production side of the alcohol market, Meacham establishes the basis for the ultimate microbrewery-the home, but, in her case, the plantation. -- Linda L. Sturtz Historian 2012
Author Information
Sarah Hand Meacham is an associate professor of early American history at Virginia Commonwealth University.
