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History and the texture of modern life : selected essays / Lucy Maynard Salmon ; edited by Nicholas Adams and Bonnie G. Smith.
LIBRA D15.S35 A25 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Salmon, Lucy Maynard, 1853-1927.
- Standardized Title:
- Essays. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Salmon, Lucy Maynard, 1853-1927.
- Salmon, Lucy Maynard.
- Historians--United States--Biography.
- Historians.
- History.
- Women historians.
- United States.
- Women historians--United States--Biography.
- Historians--United States--History--20th century.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 276 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2001]
- Summary:
- Almost a Century Ago Vassar Professor Lucy Maynard Salmon (1853-1927) Started Down an Intellectual Path that Made Her One of the Most Innovative Historians of All Time. Her Historical Method Relied on Extensive Use of the Documents of Everyday Life. In Class, for Example, she Surprised Her Students with Laundry Lists, Grocery Receipts, and Newspapers, and Asked Them to Interpret These "Ephemera" as Historical Documents. What did the Laundry Receipts Tell about Those Who Used Such Services? About Those Who Ran Such Establishments? About Systems of Domestic Service? Business Organization? In Short, Salmon Recentered History from Narrative to Methodology, from Story to Apparatus. By Examining Subjects that we Associate with Material Culture she Anticipated Current Practices by Decades. Salmon was Modern in Her Concerns and Her Methods, and a Feminist in Both Her Interests and Her Approach.
- The Book Contains a Cross Section of Her Essays Including Selections from Her Ground-Breaking Study Domestic Service and Her Well-Known Essays History in a Back Yard and Main Street in Which She Reads the Everyday Environment of Garden and City in Historical Terms. Also Included are Her Remarkable Essay on the Architectural Organization of Her Kitchen and a Hitherto Unpublished Essay on Her Former Professor, Woodrow Wilson, That Describes Him in Vivid Terms as an "Autophotographer." Salmon's Modernism Will Startle Those Who Have not Read Her Before.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Lucy Maynard Salmon and the Texture of Modern Life / Nicholas Adams, Bonnie G. Smith 1
- Domestic Space
- Domestic Service Since the Colonial Period (1897) 30
- Possible Remedies: Specialization of Household Employments (1897) 39
- Economics and Ethics in Domestic Service (1906) 49
- Our Kitchen (1906) 57
- The Family Cook-Book (1923) 63
- The City and the World of Objects
- History in a Back Yard (1912) 76
- Main Street (1915) 85
- The Record of Monuments (1933) 98
- How Far Can the Past Be Reconstructed from the Press? (1923) 109
- Schools and Citizenship
- Examinations in Theory and Practice (1905) 131
- On the College Professor (1911) 138
- Democracy in the Household (1912) 144
- Monarchy and Democracy in Education (1914) 159
- Research for Women (1926) 169
- Suggestions for the Year's Study: History I, Vassar College (1905) 182
- Historical Practice
- The Historical Museum (1911) 202
- President Wilson as an Autophotographer by an Old Acquaintance (1919) 214
- Our Greatest Historian (1926) 220
- Many Claimants for an Honor
- in America (1929) 223.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [261]-268) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0812235878
- OCLC:
- 44818618
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