Drink Bibliography

Appears in
Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America

By Andrew F. Smith

Published 2004

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  1. Barr, Andrew. Drink: A Social History of America. New York: Carroll and Graf, 1999.
  2. Brown, John Hull. Early American Beverages. Rutland, Vt.: Tuttle, 1966.
  3. Burns, Eric. The Spirits of America: A Social History of Alcohol. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004.
  4. Conroy, David. In Public Houses: Drink and the Revolution of Authority in Colonial Massachusetts. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995.
  5. Firth, Grace. Secrets of the Still: A Zesty History of How-to for Making Spirits, Fragrances, Curables, Gasohol and Other Products of the Stillroom. McClean, Va.: EPM, 1983.
  6. Hooker, Richard J. A History of Food and Drink in America. Indianapolis, Ind.: Bobbs-Merrill, 1981.
  7. Lender, Mark Edward, and James Kirby Martin. Drinking in America: A History, The Revised and Expanded Edition. New York: Free Press, 1987.
  8. Meacham, Sarah Hand. Every Home a Distillery: Alcohol, Gender, and Technology in the Colonial Chesapeake. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.
  9. Sismondo, Christine. America Walks into a Bar: A Spirited History of Taverns and Saloons, Speakeasies and Grog Shops. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
  10. Salinger, Sharon V. Taverns and Drinking in Early America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.
  11. Smith, Andrew F. Drinking History. New York: Columbia University Press, forthcoming.
  12. Thompson, Peter. Rum Punch and Revolution: Taverngoing and Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999.