Drinking matters

Titel: Drinking matters : public houses and social exchange in early modern Central Europe / Beat Kümin
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Veröffentlicht: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
Umfang: XX, 283 S., [8] Bl. : Ill., graph. Darst., Kt. ; 22cm
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch
Schriftenreihe/
mehrbändiges Werk:
Early modern history. Society and culture
Hochschulschrift: Teilw. zugl.: Bern, Univ., Philosophisch-Historische Fakultät, Habil.-Schr., 2005
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ISBN: 9780230554085 ; 0230554083
  • Preface
  • p. ix
  • Abbreviations and Measures
  • p. xi
  • Glossary
  • p. xii
  • Notes on the Text
  • p. xiii
  • List of Plates
  • p. xiv
  • List of Figures
  • p. xvi
  • List of Tables
  • p. xix
  • List of Graphs
  • p. xx
  • Introduction
  • p. 1
  • Part I
  • The Context of Public Drinking
  • 1
  • Settings
  • p. 17
  • Types of drinking establishments
  • p. 17
  • Topography and density of provision
  • p. 24
  • Premises and facilities
  • p. 37
  • 2
  • Agents and interests
  • p. 50
  • Publicans
  • p. 50
  • Patrons
  • p. 63
  • Authorities
  • p. 74
  • Part II
  • Functions of the Early Modern Public House
  • 3
  • Subsistence
  • p. 87
  • Livelihoods
  • p. 87
  • Hospitality services
  • p. 99
  • 4
  • Communication
  • p. 115
  • Infrastructural role
  • p. 116
  • Multimedia exchange
  • p. 122
  • Stabilizing functions
  • p. 126
  • Subversive potential
  • p. 130
  • Part III
  • Public Houses in Early Modern Society
  • 5
  • Interpretations
  • p. 147
  • Early modern voices
  • p. 147
  • Analytical approaches
  • p. 161
  • 6
  • Interactions
  • p. 172
  • Social centres in local communities
  • p. 172
  • Public houses and early modern change
  • p. 178
  • Conclusions
  • p. 191
  • Notes
  • p. 197
  • Bibliography
  • p. 243
  • Index
  • p. 271