David W Conroy
Biographic Data
| ID | 1101865 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David W Conroy |
| GIVEN NAMES | David W |
| FAMILY NAME | Conroy |
| SIGNATURE | CONROY D W |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Revolutionary Generation
In this piercing study of the 204 members of the Harvard College classes of 1771–1774, Conrad Edick Wright reminds us how much a college degree served as a badge of rank and privilege rather than intellectual achievement before the Revolution. Only 2,500 to 3,000 men out of a population of 2.2 million colonists had a degree, or about one-tenth of 1 percent. Investment in rank was reflected in the decisions of a significant minority, one in seven,…
Taverns and Drinking in Early America
American colonists knew just two types of public buildings,churches and taverns - and drinking houses far outnumbered places of worship. At a time when drinking water supposedly endangered one's health, colonists of every rank, age, race and gender drank often and in quantity. Sharon V. Salinger offers a study of public houses and drinking throughout the mainland British colonies. Salinger explores the obvious and obscure ends that alcohol met in…
"The "Infamas Govener
Although orphaned at the age of five, Francis Bernard (1712–1779) possessed enough family connections, later amplified by marriage to Amelia Offley, to enter Oxford University, then the Inns of Court, and eventually to win offices in church and local Lincolnshire government as befitted a member of the lesser landless gentry. In the first of eight meticulously researched and crafted chapters on the career of Sir Francis, Colin Nicolson immerses re…
Rum Punch and Revolution
Journal Article Rum Punch and Revolution: Taverngoing and Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia. By Peter Thompson. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999. x, 265 pp. Cloth, $42.50, ISBN 0-8122-3459-6. Paper, $18.50, ISBN 0-8122-1664-4.) Get access David Conroy David Conroy Weymouth, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 1, June …
People of Prowess
Sport in the old world -- A grand scheme -- Change and persistence in colonia sporting life, 1620s-1670s -- Sports and colonial popular culture, 1680s-173 -- Sport and rank making in the Chesapeake -- Mid-eighteenth-century sportin styles -- Taverns and sports -- Upper- and middle-rank leisure and sports Epilogue : people of prowess
In Public Houses
In Public Houses
Deadly Medicine
In Public Houses
In Public Houses
Journal Article In Public Houses: Drink & the Revolution of Authority in Colonial Massachusetts. By David W. Conroy. (Williamsburg: Institute of Early American History and Culture and Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995. xvi, 351 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-2207-8. Paper, $15.95, ISBN 0-8078-4521-3.) Get access Sharon V. Salinger Sharon V. Salinger University of California, Riverside, California Search for other works by this…
In Public Houses
Temperance and Prohibition in Massachusetts, 1813-1852
Revolutionary Generation
In this piercing study of the 204 members of the Harvard College classes of 1771–1774, Conrad Edick Wright reminds us how much a college degree served as a badge of rank and privilege rather than intellectual achievement before the Revolution. Only 2,500 to 3,000 men out of a population of 2.2 million colonists had a degree, or about one-tenth of 1 percent. Investment in rank was reflected in the decisions of a significant minority, one in seven,…
Temperance and Prohibition in Massachusetts, 1813-1852
Deadly Medicine
In Public Houses
In Public Houses
Journal Article In Public Houses: Drink & the Revolution of Authority in Colonial Massachusetts. By David W. Conroy. (Williamsburg: Institute of Early American History and Culture and Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995. xvi, 351 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-2207-8. Paper, $15.95, ISBN 0-8078-4521-3.) Get access Sharon V. Salinger Sharon V. Salinger University of California, Riverside, California Search for other works by this…
In Public Houses
In Public Houses
In Public Houses
People of Prowess
Sport in the old world -- A grand scheme -- Change and persistence in colonia sporting life, 1620s-1670s -- Sports and colonial popular culture, 1680s-173 -- Sport and rank making in the Chesapeake -- Mid-eighteenth-century sportin styles -- Taverns and sports -- Upper- and middle-rank leisure and sports Epilogue : people of prowess
Rum Punch and Revolution
Journal Article Rum Punch and Revolution: Taverngoing and Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia. By Peter Thompson. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999. x, 265 pp. Cloth, $42.50, ISBN 0-8122-3459-6. Paper, $18.50, ISBN 0-8122-1664-4.) Get access David Conroy David Conroy Weymouth, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 1, June …
"The "Infamas Govener
Although orphaned at the age of five, Francis Bernard (1712–1779) possessed enough family connections, later amplified by marriage to Amelia Offley, to enter Oxford University, then the Inns of Court, and eventually to win offices in church and local Lincolnshire government as befitted a member of the lesser landless gentry. In the first of eight meticulously researched and crafted chapters on the career of Sir Francis, Colin Nicolson immerses re…
Taverns and Drinking in Early America
American colonists knew just two types of public buildings,churches and taverns - and drinking houses far outnumbered places of worship. At a time when drinking water supposedly endangered one's health, colonists of every rank, age, race and gender drank often and in quantity. Sharon V. Salinger offers a study of public houses and drinking throughout the mainland British colonies. Salinger explores the obvious and obscure ends that alcohol met in…
Revolutionary Generation
In this piercing study of the 204 members of the Harvard College classes of 1771–1774, Conrad Edick Wright reminds us how much a college degree served as a badge of rank and privilege rather than intellectual achievement before the Revolution. Only 2,500 to 3,000 men out of a population of 2.2 million colonists had a degree, or about one-tenth of 1 percent. Investment in rank was reflected in the decisions of a significant minority, one in seven,…
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