W. J. Rorabaugh (1945–2020)
Auteur de The Alcoholic Republic: An American Tradition
A propos de l'auteur
W.J. Rorabaugh is Professor of History at the University of Washington in Seattle
Œuvres de W. J. Rorabaugh
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Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Rorabaugh, W. J.
- Autres noms
- Rorabaugh, William Joseph
- Date de naissance
- 1945
- Date de décès
- 2020-03
- Sexe
- male
- Professions
- historian
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Critiques
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 13
- Aussi par
- 1
- Membres
- 434
- Popularité
- #56,344
- Évaluation
- 3.6
- Critiques
- 7
- ISBN
- 36
- Langues
- 3
This was interesting overall -- it is a scholarly work -- but the author may have overreached in his analyses of *why* there was so much drinking going on. Such as saying pioneer folks were lonely/isolated & anxious. Did he have any hard evidence that was so? Yes, I'm sure some turned to drink because of isolation.
More interesting were facts such as how/why whiskey replaced rum (simply put, rum was taxed) as favored drink.
I think at the time, this was a groundbreaking work on this topic.… (plus d'informations)