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>                     QUERY: Drinking and the Harvest
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> Author: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Sun, 8 Feb 1998 22:00:11 -0500
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> Date: Sun, 08 Feb 1998 14:55:42 -0500 (EST)
>  From: [log in to unmask]
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>  Greetings All:
>
>  I am at work on a dissertation chapter that addresses Protestantism and
>  agriculture in early America (1740-1820).  Much of my work deals with
>  Quaker and Presbyterian middling farmers in the Middle Colonies. Part of
>  one of my chapters focuses on how Protestant denominations and local
>  churches and meetings sought to moderate the use of alcohol during the
>  harvest season.
>
>  I am looking for studies that focus on the role that alcohol ("spiritous
>  liquors" to the Quakers) played in the harvest season.  While my work
>  focuses on the eighteenth and early nineteenth century American context, I
>  would certainly be open to works that deal with later or earlier periods
>  or non-American studies of this phenomenon.  How important was "strong
>  drink" to the community, culture, and overall life of the harvest?
>
>  Thanks,
>
>  John Fea
>  Department of History
>  SUNY-Stony Brook
>  Stony Brook, NY 11794
>  [log in to unmask]
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