{"product_id":"restaurant-republic-the-rise-of-public-dining-in-boston-paperback-softback-9780816691319","title":"Restaurant Republic; The Rise of Public Dining in Boston (Paperback \/ softback) 9780816691319","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eRestaurant Republic\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Rise of Public Dining in Boston\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eKelly Erby (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780816691319\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 September 2016\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e176 pages, 32\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 2.5 cm, 0.258 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eRestaurant Republic\u003c\/i\u003e acknowledges the struggles involved in the development of a modern American consumer society and demonstrates that dining can make complex, and even contradictory, impulses rational.\"-Andrew P. Haley, University of Southern Mississippi\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Boon for students and scholars alike.\"-\u003ci\u003eNew England Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eRestaurant Republic\u003c\/i\u003e presents a strong case study of a central development in urban, cultural history.\"-\u003ci\u003eReviews in American History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBefore the 1820s, the vast majority of Americans ate only at home. As the nation began to urbanize and industrialize, home and work became increasingly divided, resulting in new forms of commercial dining. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this fascinating book, Kelly Erby explores the evolution of such eating alternatives in Boston during the nineteenth century. Why Boston? Its more modest assortment of restaurants, its less impressive-but still significant-expansion in commerce and population, and its growing diversity made it more typical of the nation’s other urban centers than New York. Restaurants, clearly segmented along class, gender, race, ethnic, and other lines, helped Bostonians become more comfortable with deepening social stratification in their city and young republic even as the experience of eating out contributed to an emerging public consumer culture. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRestaurant Republic\u003c\/i\u003e sheds light on how commercial dining both reflected and helped shape growing fragmentation along lines of race, class, and gender-from the elite Tremont House, which served fashionable French cuisine, to such plebeian and ethnic venues as oyster saloons and Chinese chop suey houses. The epilogue takes us to the opening, in 1929 near Boston, of the nation’s first Howard Johnson’s and that restaurant’s establishment as a franchise in the next decade. The result is a compelling story that continues to shape America.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Dining Out in Boston\u003cbr\u003e 1. Filet de Boeuf at the Tremont House: Luxury Hotel Dining Rooms\u003cbr\u003e 2. Bolted Beef and Bolted Pudding: Eating Houses\u003cbr\u003e 3. Charlotte Russe in the Afternoon: Elite Ladies’ Eateries\u003cbr\u003e 4. Roast, Chop Suey, and Beer: CafÉs\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: Ice Cream at Howard Johnson’s\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52570080313624,"sku":"9780816691319","price":18.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/restaurant-republic-the-rise-of-public-dining-in-boston-paperback-softback-9780816691319","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}