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A history of household government in America / Carole Shammas.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shammas, Carole.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Families--United States--History.
- Families.
- Domestic relations.
- History.
- Households.
- United States.
- Households--United States--History.
- Domestic relations--United States--History.
- Sex role--United States--History.
- Sex role.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2002.
- Contents:
- 1 The Household Gets a War and a History 1
- 2 The Expansion of Household Government in the Colonial Period 24
- 3 The American Revolution and the Household 53
- 4 Marriage and the Early American Household: In Search of Parental Control 83
- 5 The Household's Civil War in the Era of Domestic Bliss 108
- 6 After the War: Shrinking Census Households and the Institutional U-Turn 145
- 7 The Troublesome Alternatives 168
- A. Female Age at First Marriage: Early Modern Europe and British America, 1550-1820 182
- B. Private Household Size in the United States, 1790-1990 186
- C. Percentage of Households Headed by Females, by Nation, circa 1990 188.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [191]-224) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0813921252
- 0813921260
- OCLC:
- 49683569
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