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In Mixed Company

Taverns and Public Life in Upper Canada

Julia Roberts

$85.00 Hardcover
Release Date: 1/19/2009
ISBN: 9780774815758

$34.95 Paperback
Release Date: 7/1/2009
ISBN: 9780774815765

240 Pages

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About the Book

In Mixed Company explores taverns as colonial public space and how men and women of diverse backgrounds -- Native and newcomer, privileged and labouring, white and non-white -- negotiated a place for themselves within them. The stories that emerge unsettle comfortable certainties about who belonged where in colonial society. Colonial taverns were places where labourers enjoyed libations with wealthy Aboriginal traders like Captain Thomas, who also treated a Scotsman to a small bowl of punch; where white soldiers rubbed shoulders with black colonists out to celebrate Emancipation Day; where English ladies and their small children sought refuge for a night. The records of the past tell stories of time spent in mixed company but also of the myriad, unequal ways that colonists found room in taverns and a place in Upper Canadian culture and society. Reconstructed from tavern-keepers’ accounts, court records, diaries, travelogues, and letters, In Mixed Company is essential reading for tavern aficionados and anyone interested in the history of gender, race, and culture in Canadian or colonial society.

About the Author(s)

Julia Roberts is assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Waterloo.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface

Introduction

1. Architecture, Design, and Material Settings

2. Households and Public Life in a Tavern-keeper's Journal

3. Public Houses as Colonial Public Space

4. Regulation and Ritual in Everyday Public Life

5. Race and Space

6. Harry Jones, his Cronies, and the Haunts of Respectable Men

7. Public Life for Women in the Era of Separate Spheres

Afterword

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Reviews

Sample Chapter

Front Matter and Chapter One