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As various as their land : the everyday lives of eighteenth century Americans / Stephanie Grauman Wolf.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks E 162 .W83 1994
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wolf, Stephanie Grauman.
- Series:
- Everyday life in America series
- The Everyday life in America series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Social life and customs--To 1775.
- United States.
- United States--Social life and customs--1775-1783.
- Manners and customs.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 305 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.
- Edition:
- 1st HarperPerennial ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : HarperPerennial, 1994, ©1993.
- Summary:
- Period journals, letters, and other writings portray family and social structures, class boundaries, ethnic identities, habits, and lifestyles of the American colonists.
- Contents:
- The home front. The domestic economy
- Be it ever so humble
- Human dynamics
- The invention of childhood
- The workaday world. Making land and reaping the rewards
- "Tinker, tailor ... merchant chief"
- The public domain. Community : neighborhood
- Community : networks.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-290) and index.
- ISBN:
- 006092537X
- 9780060925376
- 0060167998
- 9780060167998
- OCLC:
- 30872468
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