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.
| ISBN: | 9780230554085 |
| Publication date: | 26th October 2007 |
| Author: | Beat A Kümin |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan an imprint of Palgrave Macmillan UK |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 283 pages |
| Series: | Early Modern History : Society and Culture |
| Genres: |
Social and cultural history Sociology: sport and leisure European history History |