The Saloon

by Duis, Perry R.

• ISBN13: 9780252067815
• ISBN10: 0252067819
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-02-01
• Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr

Summary

"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."

Author Biography

Perry R. Duis is professor of history at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
From Entrepreneur to Employee	p. 15
The Saloon as a Small Business: The Function of Failure	p. 46
The Saloon and the Public Neighborhood	p. 86
Public Politics and the Saloon	p. 114
The Public Melting Pot	p. 143
The Saloon in a City of Strangers	p. 172
The Triumph of Moral Geography	p. 204
Saloon Crime: From Wide-Open to Underground Vice	p. 230
The Long, Slow Death of the Saloon	p. 274
Comments on Primary Sources	p. 305
Notes	p. 307
Index	p. 363
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