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Alcohol use in Colonial North America


Part II – Drinking In Colonial America: Stay Away From the Water ...

Israel Acrelius's drinks list (see Part I) provides a wonderful window into the drinking options of early Americans.

The Wine of the Elite in Colonial America and the Early Republic

... north coast. To irrigate these vineyards, water, captured from the ... We use cookies on our website to see how you interact with it.

Indians and alcohol in early America - University of Georgia

Alcohol abuse has killed and impoverished American Indians since the seventeenth century, when European settlers began trading rum for furs.

'Spirited Republic' Exhibit Explores America's History With Alcohol

But clearly, drinking in America starts when America starts, and in the colonial ... But what we try to do is also link some of North American ...

Punishment in Pre-Colonial Indigenous Societies in North America ...

The influence of alcohol and the western legal process changed post-colonial societies and their methods of punishment because punishment decisions in ...

The Colonial Period - Alcohol Problems and Solutions

Pennsylvania prohibited the sale of alcoholic beverages to Native Americans. 1709. New Hampshire prohibited the sale of alcohol to drunkards and required that ...

A Study of Beer and Brewing in 18th-Century England and Her ...

This process is often a separate trade. Maltsters were common throughout England and colonial America. In fact, Samuel Adams was actually a maltster, not a ...

The Social Costs of Indian Drinking in Colonial America - eScholarship

... North American Indians, so far as clinicians and medical researchers can tell, are no more susceptible physiologically to abusing alcohol than other American.

Europe and America 1700–1800: Alcohol, Enlightenment, and ... - DOI

The former were described as good and healthy when consumed in small volumes with meals, but there was no such allowance for the modest enjoyment of whiskey or ...

Historical Overview of Alcohol in the African American Community

discussion on the use of alcohol in precolonial Africa. It may help to ... South to the North, occasions for alcohol consumption were similar to that ...

Rum - Atlantic History - Oxford Bibliographies

Rum making also emerged in the New England colonies of British North America. ... alcohol use in the Caribbean. The levels of drinking and ...

Life in Colonial America Prior to the Revolutionary War

We use cookies to understand how you use our site, improve your ... African slavery came to North America in 1619, but it remained ...

Book Review: Colonial Spirits | Alcohol Professor

The book chronicles how Americans drank for over two centuries, through a great deal of trial and error, with the alien landscape of North America.

The American Alcohol Problem: An Overlooked and Deadly Epidemic

Part of this huge alcohol consumption had to do with health, believe it or not. Before water purification measures, beer and other alcohol were safer to drink ...

The Infantilization of the Colonized: Medical and Psychiatric ...

French colonial doctors and psychiatrists described the alcohol consumption of a very specific group—colonized adult Muslim men—as childlike in ...

The Fur Trade - Bill of Rights Institute

They began to consume alcohol obtained from Europeans, at first using it for spiritual trances but then drinking it in destructive quantities. Finally, American ...

Forgotten Drinks of Colonial New England

Tipples at breakfast, lunch, teatime and dinner were the norm, and low-alcohol hard cider was sometimes even a part of children’s lives. This burgeoning ...

Great Lakes Indigenous People and the French

The fur trade brought the spread of guns, contagious diseases, and alcohol ... Slavery existed in North America long before Europeans introduced the transatlantic ...

Alcohol - African Studies - Oxford Bibliographies

Racist thinking dominated colonial policy on alcohol sales and consumption across much of eastern, central, and southern Africa, and colonial ...

The Problem of Alcohol in Colonial India (c. 1907–1942)

Liquor (alcoholic beverages for human consumption) remained prominent in political discourse and in the public sphere in this period. Temperance ...