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The reshaping of everyday life, 1790-1840 / Jack Larkin.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks E 164 .L27 1988
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Larkin, Jack, 1943-
- Series:
- Everyday life in America.
- The everyday life in America series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Social life and customs--1783-1865.
- United States.
- Manners and customs.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 349 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Harper & Row, ©1988.
- Summary:
- Recounts the customs and styles of life of ordinary people between 1790 and 1840.
- Contents:
- A busy, bustling, industrious population
- The rhythms and limits of life
- Comfortable habitations : houses and the domestic environment
- The masks which custom had prescribed : intimate life
- The whole population is in motion : the experience of travel
- The practice of music
- Occasions to meet together : the social world.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-330) and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Larkin, Jack, 1943- Reshaping of everyday life, 1790-1840.
- ISBN:
- 0060159057
- 9780060159054
- OCLC:
- 17550475
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