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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.

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

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    Publisher: University of Illinois Press
    Publication Date: 01/11/1998
    ISBN13: 9780252067815, 978-0252067815
    ISBN10: 0252067819

    Number of Pages: 416

    Non Fiction , History

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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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