Talking at Trena's is an ethnography conducted in a bar in an African American, middle-class neighborhood on Chicago's southside. May's work focuses on how the mostly black, working- and middle-class patrons of Trena's talk about race, work, class, women, relationships, the medi…
In Yankel's Tavern, Glenn Dynner investigates the role of Jews in tavern-keeping in the Kingdom of Poland between 1815 and the uprising of 1863-4 and its aftermath.
Bars and restaurants need to be assertive. Customers tend not to visit them to satisfy basic appetites for food or drink but for the social opportunities. Their interiors need to occupy the imagination of their customers and to whet the appetite for a return visit. The design th…
Presenting several approaches to identifying and studying distinctions between domestic residences and houses of ill repute, and drawing on the fields of literature, history, and art history and theory, the volume's contributors provide a way forward for the study of domestic an…
Houses of Ill Repute is the first book to focus on the difficulties of distinguishing between private homes and buildings, such as brothels and taverns, which housed activities neither public nor private in ancient Greece, providing a way forward for the study of domestic and en…
Tegen wil en dank moet een jongeman het landbouwbedrijf en de herberg van zijn familie overnemen.
Auf der "SWR"--Bestenliste Dezember 2011:"Nun hat Bierbichler einen Roman geschrieben, der in einer klaren, poetischen Sprache von den Schrecken und Torheiten des 20. Jahrhunderts erzählt. Er ist ein Ereignis in diesem Bücherjahr."Wolfgang Höbel, Der Spiegel 36/2011. IInhalt:Im …
Eine Seewirtschaft in Bayern und eine Familie über drei Generationen. Josef Bierbichler erzählt hundert Jahre Deutschland.
"'Inn Civility' explores Urban Taverns in the Early American society"--
Campbell argues that the regulation of the environment of the classic beer parlour, rather than being an example of social control, is best understood as moral regulation and part of a process of normalization.
Campbell argues that the regulation of the environment of the classic beer parlour, rather than being an example of social control, is best understood as moral regulation and part of a process of normalization.