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Alice Morse Earle and the domestic history of early America / Susan Reynolds Williams.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Williams, Susan, 1948- author.
- Series:
- Public history in historical perspective.
- Public history in historical perspective
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911.
- Earle, Alice Morse.
- Historians--United States--Biography.
- Historians.
- Women historians--United States--Biography.
- Women historians.
- Material culture--United States--Historiography.
- Material culture.
- Home economics--United States--Historiography.
- Home economics.
- United States--Social life and customs--To 1775--Historiography.
- United States.
- New England--Social life and customs--To 1775--Historiography.
- New England.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 315 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : University of Massachusetts Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Author, collector, and historian Alice Morse Earle (1851-1911) was among the most important and prolific writers of her day.Between 1890 and 1904, she produced seventeen books as well as numerous articles, pamphlets, and speeches about the life, manners, customs, and material culture of colonial New England.
- Contents:
- Introduction : hunting for Alice Morse Earle
- Family matters
- Parlor culture, public culture
- New England kismet
- The China hunter
- Writing the past
- Home life and history
- Remembering the garden
- Genealogy and the quest for an inherited future
- Toward new public history
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Chronological bibliography of Alice Morse Earle's works.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-61376-226-7
- OCLC:
- 859686629
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