The Saloon: Public Drinking in Chicago and Boston, 1880-1920
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October 1, 1983
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ISBN-13: 9780252010101
ISBN-10: 0252010108
About this book
Presents evidence that the saloon played an important role in the working-class community life. Focusing on public drinking in Chicago and Boston this book offers a 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.