Accommodating the Republic

“A valuable work of social and cultural history. . . . [T]his book remains an admirable work that will be of interest to students of the early United States, the public square, and tavern culture generally.”—Journal of Southern History

“Wood has painstakingly excavated references to taverns to reveal the multiplicity of experiences within as well as boisterous debates about these spaces in the nation’s economy, its simultaneously democratic and hierarchical social order, and its contentious culture. Pour a glass of your favorite beverage and enjoy this book’s enlightening and persuasive reframing of the history of the Early Republic.”—Register of the Kentucky Historical Society

“Accommodating the Republic provides a fresh look at the political, economic, and social dimensions of taverns in the early United States. Wood’s research well supports her claims about the imbrication of taverns with developing notions of white male citizenship. . . . It deserves a wide readership among early American and early national historians.”—American Historical Review

“Broad in scope and meticulous in detail, Accommodating the Republic reminds us that the United States’ tumultuous past—never mind present—remains firmly wedded to our social institutions, perhaps none of which surpassed the tavern in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.”—William & Mary Quarterly

“[Wood’s] meticulous research and clear writing on this fascinating topic will make her work a standard for years to come.”—Social History of Alcohol and Drugs

“Wood has done an extraordinary job of perfecting such a complicated and sprawling historical explanation.”—John Lauritz Larson, author of Laid Waste! The Culture of Exploitation in Early America

“[Wood] significantly highlights the continuing importance of taverns to American culture and politics.”—Charlene Boyer Lewis, author of Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte: An American Aristocrat in the Early Republic