Saloon: Public Drinking in Chicago and Boston, 1880-1920

by Perry Duis

Book Overview

This colorful and perceptive study presents persuasive evidence that the saloon, far from being a magnet for vice and crime, played an important role in working-class community life. Focusing on public drinking in "wide open" Chicago and tightly controlled Boston, Duis offers a provocative discussion of the saloon as a social institution and a locus of the struggle between middle-class notions of privacy and working-class uses of public space.
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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252067819
• ISBN13: 9780252067815
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 8.9"