Drinking Matters: Public Houses and Social Exchange in Early Modern Central Europe (Early Modern History: Society and Culture)
Description
Offering the first comparative survey of public houses in pre-industrial Europe and drawing on a vast range of primary sources, this study establishes inns and taverns as principal communication sites in local communities. Contested and continuously renegotiated, they catered for basic human needs as well as infinite forms of social exchange.
Keywords
BARS (DRINKING ESTABLISHMENTS)_EUROPEBARS (DRINKING ESTABLISHMENTS)_SOCIAL ASPECTS
2007Book
Author(s)Beat A. Kümin
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN9780230554085
LanguageEnglish
