Every Home a Distillery Alcohol, Gender, and Technology in the Colonial Chesapeake

Name: Every Home a Distillery Alcohol, Gender, and Technology in the Colonial Chesapeake
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ISBN: 9781421409634

ISBN-10: 1421409631

ISBN-13: 9781421409634

Edition: N/A

Authors: Sarah H. Meacham

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In this original examination of alcohol production in early America, Sarah Hand Meacham uncovers the crucial role women played in cidering and distilling in the colonial Chesapeake. Her fascinating story is one defined by gender, class, technology, and changing patterns of production. Alcohol was essential to colonial life; the region’s water was foul, milk was generally unavailable, and tea and coffee were far too expensive for all but the very wealthy. Colonists used alcohol to drink, in cooking, as a cleaning agent, in beauty products, and as medicine. Meacham finds that the distillation and brewing of alcohol for these purposes traditionally fell to women. Advice and recipes in such…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 4/1/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English