Kümin Beat. Drinking Matters: Public Houses and Social Exchange in Early Modern Central Europe

Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. — 300 p. — (Early Modern History: Society and Culture).Offering the first comparative survey of public houses in pre-industrial Europe and drawing on a vast range of primary sources, this study establishes inns and taverns as principal communication sites in local communities. Contested and continuously renegotiated, they catered for basic human needs as well as infinite forms of social exchange.