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

by Duis, Perry

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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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  • Nov 1, 1998 Pub Date:
  • 0252067819 ISBN-10:
  • 9780252067815 ISBN-13:
  • English Language