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Inn civility : urban taverns and early American civil society
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"'Inn Civility' explores Urban Taverns in the Early American society"--
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- Creator
- Vaughn Scribner
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : New York University Press, [2019]
- ©2019
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- xiii, 264 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781479864928, 1479864927, 1479815209, 9781479815203
- OCLC
- on1090728614, on1057304506
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [177]-259) and index.
- Coffeehouse coteries: civil dreams of exclusivity and consumer power -- "Citizens of the world?": coming to terms with cosmopolitanism -- "We that entertain travelers must strive to oblige every body": urban taverns and the messy reality of civil society -- "Disorderly houses": rakish revelries, unlicensed taverns, and uncivil contradictions -- "They will begin to think their united power irresistible": the Stamp Act and the crisis of civil society -- "As far from being settled as ever it was": the revolutionary transformation of civil society