Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations viii
4. Preface ix
5. Introduction 1
6. Architecture, Design, and Material Settings 11
7. Households and Public Life in a Tavern-Keeper’s Journal 39
8. Public Houses as Colonial Public Space 56
9. Regulation and Ritual in Everyday Public Life 77
10. Race and Space 101
11. Harry Jones, his Cronies, and the Haunts of Respectable Men 120
12. Public Life for Women in the Era of Separate Spheres 138
13. Afterword 165
14. Notes 170
15. Bibliography 202
16. Index 219