In Mixed Company

Informationen zum Autor Julia Roberts is an assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Waterloo. Klappentext Julia Roberts is an assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Waterloo. Zusammenfassung A fascinating exploration of the tavern as a significant and fluid social space in colonial Canada. Inhaltsverzeichnis PrefaceIntroduction1 Architecture, Design, and Material Settings2 Households and Public Life in a Tavern-keeper's Journal3 Public Houses as Colonial Public Space4 Regulation and Ritual in Everyday Public Life5 Race and Space6 Harry Jones, his Cronies, and the Haunts of Respectable Men7 Public Life for Women in the Era of Separate SpheresAfterwordNotesBibliographyIndex

Autorentext

Julia Roberts is an assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Waterloo.

Zusammenfassung
A fascinating exploration of the tavern as a significant and fluid social space in colonial Canada.

Inhalt

Preface

Introduction

1 Architecture, Design, and Material Settings

2 Households and Public Life in a Tavern-keeper's Journal

3 Public Houses as Colonial Public Space

4 Regulation and Ritual in Everyday Public Life

5 Race and Space

6 Harry Jones, his Cronies, and the Haunts of Respectable Men

7 Public Life for Women in the Era of Separate Spheres

Afterword

Notes

Bibliography

Index