The Saloon: Public Drinking in Chicago and Boston, 1880-1920This 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. |
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
From Entrepreneur to Employee | 15 |
The Saloon as a Small Business The Function of Failure | 46 |
The Saloon and the Public Neighborhood | 86 |
Public Politics and the Saloon | 114 |
The Public Melting Pot | 143 |
The Saloon in a City of Strangers | 172 |
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| Title | The Saloon: Public Drinking in Chicago and Boston, 1880-1920 |
| Author | Perry Duis |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | University of Illinois Press, 1999 |
| ISBN | 0252067819, 9780252067815 |
| Length | 380 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / United States / General Social Science / Sociology / Rural |
| Export Citation | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |