TY - BOOK AU - Meacham,Sarah Hand ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Every home a distillery: alcohol, gender, and technology in the colonial Chesapeake T2 - Early America AV - TP573.U6 M43 2009eb U1 - 641.2/1097409033 22 PY - 2009/// CY - Baltimore PB - Johns Hopkins University Press KW - Brewing KW - Social aspects KW - Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) KW - History KW - Distilling industries KW - Housewives KW - Home economics KW - Sex role KW - Social classes KW - Drinking of alcoholic beverages KW - Bars (Drinking establishments) KW - Social life and customs KW - 17th century KW - 18th century KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; "It was being too abstemious that brought this sickness upon me" : alcoholic beverage consumption in the early Chesapeake -- "They will be adjudged by their drinke, what kind of housewives they are" : gender, technology, and household cidering in England and the Chesapeake, 1690 to 1760 -- "This drink cannot be kept during the summer" : large planters, science, and community networks in the early eighteenth century -- "Anne Howard-- will take in gentlemen" : white middling women and the tavernkeeping trade in colonial Virginia -- "Ladys here all go to market to supply their pantry" : alcohol for sale, 1760 to 1776 -- "Every man his own distiller" : technology, the American Revolution, and the masculinization of alcohol production in the late eighteenth century -- "He is much addicted to strong drinke" : the problem of alcohol -- A few recipes; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10367611 ER -