Drinking Matters: Public Houses and Social Exchange in Early Modern Central Europe by Kümin, B.

Drinking Matters: Public Houses and Social Exchange in Early Modern Central Europe (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780230554085)

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Drinking Matters: Public Houses and Social Exchange in Early Modern Central Europe by Kümin, B.

Drinking Matters: Public Houses and Social Exchange in Early Modern Central Europe

$54.99
Drinking Matters: Public Houses and Social Exchange in Early Modern Central Europe by Kümin, B.

Drinking Matters: Public Houses and Social Exchange in Early Modern Central Europe

$54.99
Format: Hardcover
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Offering the first comparative survey of public houses in pre-industrial Europe and drawing on a vast range of primary sources, this study establishes inns and taverns as principal communication sites in local communities. Contested and continuously renegotiated, they catered for basic human needs as well as infinite forms of social exchange.

Author: B. Kümin
ISBN-10: 0230554083
ISBN-13: 9780230554085
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 10/26/2007
Pages: 283
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.70h x 5.88w x 0.92d
By B. Kümin
By B. Kümin
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BEAT KÜMIN was born and educated in Switzerland. Following research fellowships at Magdalene College, Cambridge, and the University of Bern, he is now Associate Professor in History at Warwick University, UK. Publications include The Shaping of a Community: The Rise and Reformation if the English Parish (1996), the co-edited collection The World of the Tavern in Early Modern Europe (2002) and Local Communities in Pre-Industrial Europe (forthcoming with Palgrave).

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