W. J. Rorabaugh (1945–2020)
Autor/a de The Alcoholic Republic: An American Tradition
Sobre l'autor
W.J. Rorabaugh is Professor of History at the University of Washington in Seattle
Obres de W. J. Rorabaugh
Obres associades
The Free Speech Movement: Reflections on Berkeley in the 1960s (2002) — Col·laborador — 41 exemplars
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Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- Rorabaugh, W. J.
- Altres noms
- Rorabaugh, William Joseph
- Data de naixement
- 1945
- Data de defunció
- 2020-03
- Gènere
- male
- Professions
- historian
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Ressenyes
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Autors associats
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- Obres
- 13
- També de
- 1
- Membres
- 436
- Popularitat
- #56,114
- Valoració
- 3.6
- Ressenyes
- 7
- ISBN
- 36
- Llengües
- 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.… (més)