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Saloon|Perry Duis

Saloon : Public Drinking in Chicago and Boston, 1880-1920

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Overview

This 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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  • ISBN-13: 9780252067815
  • ISBN-10: 0252067819
  • Publisher: University of Illinois Press
  • Publish Date: November 1998
  • Dimensions: 8.93 x 5.97 x 1.16 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.35 pounds
  • Page Count: 416

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