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Book Faces Along the Bar

    Book Details:
  • Author : Madelon Powers
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 1999-06
  • ISBN : 9780226677699
  • Pages : 348 pages

Download or read book Faces Along the Bar written by Madelon Powers and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1999-06 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction Pt. I: The Criteria for Comradeship1: The Importance of Being Regular 2: Gender, Age, and Marital Status 3: Occupation, Ethnicity, and Neighborhood Pt. II: The Gentle Art of Clubbing4: Drinking Folkways 5: Clubbing by Treat 6: Clubbing by CollectionPt. III: More Lore of the Barroom7: Games and Gambling 8: Talk and Storytelling 9: Songs and Singing 10: The Free Lunch ConclusionNotesIndex Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Book At Home Inside

Download or read book At Home Inside written by Elisabeth Petry and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2009 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ann Petry (1908-1997) was a prominent writer during a period in which few black writers were published with regularity in America. Her novels The Street, Country Place, and The Narrows, along with a collection of short stories and various essays and works of nonfiction, give voice to black experience outside of the traditional strains of poverty and black nationalism. At Home Inside: A Daughter's Tribute to Ann Petry sifts the myriad contradictions of Ann Petry's life from a daughter's vantage. Ann Petry hoarded antiques but destroyed many of her journals. She wrote, but, failing to publish for years, she used her imagination to design and sew clothes, to bake, and to garden. When fame finally came, Ann Petry did not enjoy the travel it brought. Though she suffered phobias and anxieties all her life, she did not avoid the obligations of literary success until late in her career. Ann Petry applied her formidable skills to stories she told about herself and her family, and the corrections Elisabeth Petry makes to her mother's inventions will prove invaluable. Talking about her life publicly, Ann Petry acknowledged six different birth dates. She hid her first marriage, and even represented her father, Peter C. Lane, Jr., as a potential killer. Mining Petry's journals Elisabeth Petry creates part biography, part love letter, and part sounding of her mother's genius and luminescent personality. Elisabeth Petry is a freelance writer with a juris doctor from the University of Pennsylvania. She lives in Middletown, Connecticut, and is the editor of Can Anything Beat White? A Black Family's Letters (University Press of Mississippi).

Book Domesticating Drink

    Book Details:
  • Author : Catherine Gilbert Murdock
  • Publisher : JHU Press
  • Release : 2003-03-04
  • ISBN : 0801870224
  • Pages : 381 pages

Download or read book Domesticating Drink written by Catherine Gilbert Murdock and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2003-03-04 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title The period of prohibition, from 1919 to 1933, marks the fault line between the cultures of Victorian and modern America. In Domesticating Drink, Murdock argues that the debates surrounding alcohol also marked a divide along gender lines. For much of early American history, men generally did the drinking, and women and children were frequently the victims of alcohol-associated violence and abuse. As a result, women stood at the fore of the temperance and prohibition movements and, as Murdock explains, effectively used the fight against drunkenness as a route toward political empowerment and participation. At the same time, respectable women drank at home, in a pattern of moderation at odds with contemporaneous male alcohol abuse. During the 1920s, with federal prohibition a reality, many women began to assert their hard-won sense of freedom by becoming social drinkers in places other than the home. Murdock's study of how this development took place broadens our understanding of the social and cultural history of alcohol and the various issues that surround it. As alcohol continues to spark debate about behaviors, attitudes, and gender roles, Domesticating Drink provides valuable historical context and important lessons for understanding and responding to the evolving use, and abuse, of drink.

Book A Defense for the Dead

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Fredrickson
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2004-05
  • ISBN : 9780312874575
  • Pages : 328 pages

Download or read book A Defense for the Dead written by Michael Fredrickson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-05 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boston attorney Jimmy Morrissey must juggle a troubled personal life and an even more troubling murder case in which a serial killer seemingly comes back from the grave.

Book Buffalo Beer

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael F. Rizzo
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 2015-01-12
  • ISBN : 1625851685
  • Pages : 282 pages

Download or read book Buffalo Beer written by Michael F. Rizzo and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015-01-12 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buffalo's appreciation for a frosty pint stretches back more than a century before anyone enjoyed a cold one with a basket of wings. By the middle of the 1800s, the industrial hub counted malt and beer among its most vital and satisfying products. Operations like Simon Pure Beer, Iroquois Beverage and the Magnus Beck Brewing Company brought Buffalo's world-class ales to the rest of the country. Prohibition saw a thriving business in black market hooch, though it all but killed the city's historic breweries. A few survivors struggled to recover. Today, a new batch of breweries like Community Beer Works and Big Ditch Brewing Company are crafting a beer revolution in the Queen City. Historian Michael Rizzo and brewer Ethan Cox explore the sudsy story of Buffalo beer.

Book Social Inequality and Social Stratification in US Society

Download or read book Social Inequality and Social Stratification in US Society written by Christopher B. Doob and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-22 with total page 645 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social Inequality and Social Stratification in US Society uses a historical and conceptual framework to explain social stratification and social inequality. The historical scope gives context to each issue discussed and allows the reader to understand how each topic has evolved over the course of American history. The author uses qualitative data to help explain socioeconomic issues and connect related topics. Each chapter examines major concepts, so readers can see how an individual’s success in stratified settings often relies heavily on their access to valued resources—types of capital which involve finances, schooling, social networking, and cultural competence. Analyzing the impact of capital types throughout the text helps map out the prospects for individuals, families, and also classes to maintain or alter their position in social-stratification systems.

Book Trouble is what I Do

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rob Kantner
  • Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
  • Release : 2005-01-01
  • ISBN : 0809511568
  • Pages : 362 pages

Download or read book Trouble is what I Do written by Rob Kantner and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ben Perkins is back! It feels so good to say that. Twenty-three years ago, when Rob Kantner introduced his Detroit PI in the short story "C Is for Cookie," he probably had no idea he was heralding in a new era of mystery fiction. Before Rob, the private eye genre was glutted with down-in-their-luck losers who wore trench coats and talked like Bogart. Stereotypes ruled the paperback racks, and a revamp was sorely needed. Rob's genius was to give his hero something more than cliched one-liners and a drinking problem. Namely, a life." J. A. Konrath, from his introduction This collection includes 18 stories featuring Ben Perkins, from the earliest part of his career to the latest chapter. The final story, "Sex and Violins" has never before been published."

Book Association Men

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1915
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 788 pages

Download or read book Association Men written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Inquisitor s Apprentice

Download or read book The Inquisitor s Apprentice written by Chris Moriarty and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2011 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In early 20th-century New York, Sacha Kessler's ability to see witches earns him an apprenticeship to the police department's star Inquisitor, Maximillian Wolf. With fellow apprentice Lily Astral, Sacha investigates who is trying to kill Thomas Edison.

Book New Jersey Breweries

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lew Bryson
  • Publisher : Stackpole Books
  • Release : 2008-07-07
  • ISBN : 0811746275
  • Pages : 178 pages

Download or read book New Jersey Breweries written by Lew Bryson and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2008-07-07 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a guidebook to 23 breweries and brewpubs across the Garden State, from corporate giants to the newest brewpubs.

Book Red  White  and Brew

    Book Details:
  • Author : Brian Yaeger
  • Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
  • Release : 2008-09-30
  • ISBN : 1429953179
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book Red White and Brew written by Brian Yaeger and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2008-09-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Red, White, and Brew is the ultimate beer run across the United States, during which Brian Yaeger visits fourteen breweries of various sizes and talks to founders, owners, brewmasters, consumers, and anyone else he meets on his odyssey and who enjoys the making, tasting, and appreciating of brews. Red, White, and Brew pursues the roots of brewers who brought their craft with them from their homeland and investigates how the tradition is faring today and where it may head in the future. Covering everything from fifth-generation family-run brewing companies to first-wave microbreweries, this book is a travelogue, guide, and genealogical study of beer families and homebrewers from Portland, Maine, to Portland, Oregon. It is filled with eclectic characters and shrewd businesspeople who populate an industry as old as the New World, and who produce liquid philanthropy, one keg at a time.

Book Louisville Beer

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kevin Gibson
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 2014-09-02
  • ISBN : 1625849958
  • Pages : 196 pages

Download or read book Louisville Beer written by Kevin Gibson and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's no secret that Louisville is one of America's bourbon capitals, but the Derby City once thrived as a brewing mecca as well, rivaling even St. Louis and Milwaukee with its crisp lagers and Kentucky Common Ale. German settlers arrived with centuries-old brewing traditions and beer gardens, cementing beer and barrooms in Louisville's culture. Following Prohibition, the "big three"--Falls City, Fehr's and Oertel's--kept traditions alive while ingraining iconic brands into the city's fabric and heritage. More recently, craft brewers like BBC, Apocalypse Brew Works and New Albanian Brewing Company have drawn on this rich history. Kick back with Louisville food and beverage journalist Kevin Gibson as he traces Louisville's beer history with stories from the past, interviews and plenty of photos that bring this intoxicating story to life.

Book Bottoms Up

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jim Draeger
  • Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
  • Release : 2012-08-21
  • ISBN : 087020601X
  • Pages : 279 pages

Download or read book Bottoms Up written by Jim Draeger and published by Wisconsin Historical Society. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bottoms Up showcases the architecture and history of 70 Wisconsin breweries and bars. Beginning with inns and saloons, the book explores the rise of breweries, the effects of temperance and Prohibition, and attitudes about gender, ethnicity, and morality. It traces the development of the megabreweries, dominance of the giants, and the emergence of microbreweries. Contemporary photographs of unusual and distinctive bars of all eras, historic photos, postcards, advertisements, and breweriana help tell the story of how Wisconsin came to dominate brewing—and the place that bars and taverns hold in our social and cultural history.

Book Union Postal Clerk

Download or read book Union Postal Clerk written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Union Postal Clerk

Download or read book The Union Postal Clerk written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Union Postal Clerk   the Postal Transport Journal

Download or read book The Union Postal Clerk the Postal Transport Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Michigan Campaign Manual for a Dry State

Download or read book Michigan Campaign Manual for a Dry State written by Michigan Dry Campaign Committee and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: