| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.2

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Sharon V. Salinger. Taverns and Drinking in Early America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2002. Pp. xi, 309. $42.00.

Sharon V. Salinger's book offers a fresh perspective on one of the colonial period's most important social institutions and the drinking behavior that was central to it. Taverns, as any number of previous studies have observed, were a central element of the colonial social scene and attended every bit as religiously as houses of worship. Historians have long seen drinking itself as an important social marker, reflecting and interacting with wider elements of cultural norms and historical environments. In this study, however, Salinger has provided a rich mixture of social, political, and cultural history that sheds some genuinely new light on the importance of drinking and drinking establishments during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

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