Обуздавање кафана: Друштвени простор и државна регулација у Београду у XIX веку
Taming the Tavern: Social Space and Government Regulation in 19 th Century Belgrade

Summary/Abstract: The effect governmental involvement had on tavern culture is difficult to assess. While regulation seems to have increased in both detail and scope, practices which were not officially sanctioned did persist. The ban against "having drinks with the Turk" seems to have been one which was difficult to enact. As far as fifteen years after the first act instructing him to do so, a certain Sreten Petrovic had to sign an affidavit promising not to allow any Muslim in his tavern.35 The following year, regulations regarding working hours stipulated mat such should be printed or displayed on every tavern, and banned nighttime operations. The same publication notes that all-night drinking and gambling persevered in spite of earlier prescriptions against it.36 It would be another decade before the Magistrate instituted regular police surveillance in all taverns to ensure mat proper conduct was upheld.

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