Every home a distillery : alcohol, gender, and technology in the colonial Chesapeake / Sarah Hand Meacham.

Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.

xi, 187 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Johns Hopkins paperback edition.

"It was being too abstemious that brought this sickness upon me" : alcoholic beverage consumption in the early Chesapeake -- "They will be adjudged by their drinke, what kind of housewives they are" : gender, technology, and household cidering in England and the Chesapeake, 1690 to 1760 -- "This drink cannot be kept during the summer" : large planters, science, and community networks in the early eighteenth century -- "Anne Howard-- will take in gentlemen" : white middling women and the tavernkeeping trade in colonial Virginia -- "Ladys here all go to market to supply their pantry" : alcohol for sale, 1760 to 1776 -- "Every man his own distiller" : technology, the American Revolution, and the masculinization of alcohol production in the late eighteenth century -- "He is much addicted to strong drinke" : the problem of alcohol -- A few recipes.

Includes bibliographical references and index.