The Alcoholic Republic: An American Tradition
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780199766314 (0199766312)
Publish date: November 1st 1979
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Edition language: English
Unconvincing. Rorabaugh writes “the United States [between 1790-1830] underwent such profound social and psychological change that a new national character emerged,” and that excessive drinking during this period was a symptom of this stress. America’s democratic ideals and cult of individual free...