| Drinking Matters: Public Houses and Social Exchange in Early Modern Central Europe 2007 Edition Contributor(s): Kümin, B. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0230554083 ISBN-13: 9780230554085 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2007 Annotation: "Drinking Matters" offers the first comparative survey of public houses in preindustrial Europe. Drawing on a vast range of primary sources, this long-term study establishes inns and taverns as principal communication sites in local communities. Perennially contested and continuously renegotiated, they catered for basic human needs as well as infinite forms of social exchange. Close scrutiny of regulation, premises and socio-cultural services sheds new light on key processes like state building, confessionalization and the emergence of a public sphere. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Social History - History | Europe - General - Business & Economics | Industries - Hospitality, Travel & Tourism |
| Dewey: 647.95 |
| LCCN: 2007018260 |
| Series: Early Modern History: Society and Culture (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 0.92" H x 5.88" W x 8.7" (1.15 lbs) 283 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |