Alcoholic RepublicW. J. Rorabaugh
Alcoholic Republic
by W. J. Rorabaugh · first published 1981
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If you're interested about the booze side of things, I recommend "The Alcoholic Republic" https://www.amazon.com/Alcoholic-Republic-American-Tradition...
on “'Wild West' mentality lingers in modern populations of US mountain regions” ↗For those interested, I highly recommend The Alcoholic Republic (1979) which had an honored place on my college bookshelf[1]. The colonists' drink of choice was cider -- 18 gallons per year per person during the Revolution. I've made available his table on alcohol…
on “Getting Drunk in Colonial America (2013)” ↗“ In his 1979 history, The Alcoholic Republic, the historian W. J. Rorabaugh painstakingly calculated the stunning amount of alcohol early Americans drank on a daily basis. In 1830, when American liquor consumption hit its all-time high, the average…
on “America has a drinking problem” ↗