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Domestic revolutions : a social history of American family life / Steven Mintz and Susan Kellogg.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks HQ535 .M46 1988
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mintz, Steven, 1953-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States.
- United States--Social conditions--To 1865.
- United States--Social conditions--1865-1918.
- United States--Social conditions--20th century.
- Families--United States--History.
- Families.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 316 pages, 17 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Free Press ; London : Collier Macmillan, <U+fffd>1988.
- Summary:
- Looks at the ways the American family has adapted to change over the past three hundred years, and discusses the families of American Indians, slaves, and immigrants.
- Contents:
- The Godly family in New England and its transformation
- The roots of diversity
- The rise of the democratic family
- The shaping of the Afro-American family
- Industrialization and the working-class family
- The rise of the companionate family, 1900-1930
- America's families face the Great Depression
- Families on the home front
- The golden age: families of the 1950s
- Coming apart: radical departures since 1960
- The politics of the family: the 1980s and beyond
- Historical perspectives on the family
- The language of family history.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-307) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0029212901
- 9780029212905
- 002921291X
- 9780029212912
- OCLC:
- 16871808
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