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A nation of realtors : a cultural history of the twentieth-century American middle class / Jeffrey M. Hornstein.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hornstein, Jeffrey M., 1967-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Radical perspectives.
- Radical perspectives
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Real estate business--United States--History--20th century.
- Real estate business.
- Middle class--United States--History--20th century.
- Middle class.
- Women real estate agents--United States--History--20th century.
- Women real estate agents.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (267 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A history of the real estate profession that rethinks the impact of gender and class tensions in twentieth-century America.
- Contents:
- "Doing something definite": the emergence of real estate brokerage as a career, 1883-1908
- Real estate brokerage and the formation of a (national) middle-class consciousness, 1907-1915
- Character, competency, and real (estate) professionalism, 1915-1921
- Applied realology: administration, education, and the consequences of partial professionalization in the 1920s
- The realtors go to Washington: enshrining homeownership in the 1930s
- "Rosie the realtor" and the re-gendering of real estate brokerage, 1938-1950
- Domesticity, gender, and real estate in the 1950s and beyond.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-245) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613021861
- 9781283021869
- 1283021862
- 9780822386605
- 0822386607
- OCLC:
- 226068151
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