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Beer of Broadway fame : the Piel family and their Brooklyn brewery / Alfred W. McCoy.
- Title
- Beer of Broadway fame : the Piel family and their Brooklyn brewery / Alfred W. McCoy.
- Author
- McCoy, Alfred W.
- Publication
- Albany, New York : State University of New York Press, 2016.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | TP573.5.A1 M35 2016 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xv, 488 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 26 cm
- Summary
- "Through a narrative spanning three generations, McCoy examines the demoralizing impact of pervasive US state surveillance during World War I and the Cold War, as well as the forced assimilation that virtually erased German American identity from public life after World War I. McCoy traces Piel Bros.'s changing fortunes from its early struggle to survive in New York's Gilded Age beer market, the travails of Prohibition with police raids and gangster death threats, to the crushing competition from the big national brands after World War II. Through a fusion of corporate records with intimate personal correspondence, McCoy reveals the social forces that changed a great city, the US brewing industry, and the country's economy."--Page [4] of cover.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-447) and index.
- Contents
- The Piel Family -- Brooklyn Brewery -- Incorporation -- Prologue to prohibition -- The Great War -- Prohibition -- Repeal -- Purging Piels from Piel Bros. -- Corporate expansion -- Demise -- Third generation.
- ISBN
- 1438461402
- 9781438461403
- 9781438461397
- 1438461399
- OCLC
- 921821462
- SCSB-11757611
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library