Author: Jack Larkin
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062016806
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
"Compact and insightful. "--New York Times Book Review "Jack Larkin has retrieved the irretrievable; the intimate facts of everyday life that defined what people were really like."--American Heritage
The Reshaping of Everyday Life, 1790–1840
Author: Jack Larkin
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062016806
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
"Compact and insightful. "--New York Times Book Review "Jack Larkin has retrieved the irretrievable; the intimate facts of everyday life that defined what people were really like."--American Heritage
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062016806
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
"Compact and insightful. "--New York Times Book Review "Jack Larkin has retrieved the irretrievable; the intimate facts of everyday life that defined what people were really like."--American Heritage
Everyday Life in Early America
Author: David F. Hawke
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060912510
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
"In this clearly written volume, Hawke provides enlightening and colorful descriptions of early Colonial Americans and debunks many widely held assumptions about 17th century settlers."--Publishers Weekly
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060912510
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
"In this clearly written volume, Hawke provides enlightening and colorful descriptions of early Colonial Americans and debunks many widely held assumptions about 17th century settlers."--Publishers Weekly
Where We Worked
Author: Jack Larkin
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1461745926
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
A celebration of America's workers and the nation they built. Narratives tell the stories, over time, of wheat growers and sharecroppers, mill girls and housemaids, gold miners and railway porters, farmwives and cowboys, newsboys and stenographers.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1461745926
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
A celebration of America's workers and the nation they built. Narratives tell the stories, over time, of wheat growers and sharecroppers, mill girls and housemaids, gold miners and railway porters, farmwives and cowboys, newsboys and stenographers.
Where We Lived
Author: Jack Larkin
Publisher: Taunton
ISBN: 9781561588473
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A social history of early America combines with more than four hundred photographs and drawings to look at everyday life, and the many different kinds of dwellings, at the dawn of the new republic, from the American Revolution to the Industrial Revolution.
Publisher: Taunton
ISBN: 9781561588473
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A social history of early America combines with more than four hundred photographs and drawings to look at everyday life, and the many different kinds of dwellings, at the dawn of the new republic, from the American Revolution to the Industrial Revolution.
Victorian America
Author: Thomas J. Schlereth
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060921609
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
A valuable and compelling portrait of the daily life of Americans during the Victorian era--the fourth volume in the Everyday Life in America series
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060921609
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
A valuable and compelling portrait of the daily life of Americans during the Victorian era--the fourth volume in the Everyday Life in America series
As Various as Their Lands: the Everyday Lives of Eighteenth-century Americans(p)
Author: Stephanie Grauman Wolf
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 9781610750493
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 9781610750493
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Expansion of Everyday Life (p)
Author: Daniel E. Sutherland
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 9781610751452
Category : Buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
6 portrays ordinary Americans swept up in an era of social and geographical expansion. During this period, five states joined the Union -- Kansas, West Virginia, Nevada, Nebraska, and Colorado -- and the population reached nearly forty million. The westward movement was given a boost by the completion of the first intercontinental railroad, and migration from farms and villages to towns and cities increased, accompanied by a shift from rural occupations and crafts to industrial tasks and trades. Overall, the pursuit of middle-class status became a driving force.
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 9781610751452
Category : Buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
6 portrays ordinary Americans swept up in an era of social and geographical expansion. During this period, five states joined the Union -- Kansas, West Virginia, Nevada, Nebraska, and Colorado -- and the population reached nearly forty million. The westward movement was given a boost by the completion of the first intercontinental railroad, and migration from farms and villages to towns and cities increased, accompanied by a shift from rural occupations and crafts to industrial tasks and trades. Overall, the pursuit of middle-class status became a driving force.
Everyday Life in the 1800s
Author: Marc McCutcheon
Publisher: Writers Digest Books
ISBN: 9781582970639
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Provides information about many aspects of everyday life in the 1800s, covering speech and slang, transportation, household goods, clothing, occupations, money, health and medicine, food and tobacco, amusements, courtship and marriage, slavery, the Civil War, crime, and the wild west.
Publisher: Writers Digest Books
ISBN: 9781582970639
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Provides information about many aspects of everyday life in the 1800s, covering speech and slang, transportation, household goods, clothing, occupations, money, health and medicine, food and tobacco, amusements, courtship and marriage, slavery, the Civil War, crime, and the wild west.
The Reshaping of Everyday Life, 1790-1840
Author: Jack Larkin
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 9780060159054
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
"Compact and insightful. "--New York Times Book Review "Jack Larkin has retrieved the irretrievable; the intimate facts of everyday life that defined what people were really like."--American Heritage
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 9780060159054
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
"Compact and insightful. "--New York Times Book Review "Jack Larkin has retrieved the irretrievable; the intimate facts of everyday life that defined what people were really like."--American Heritage
Home Life in Colonial Days
Author: Alice Morse Earle
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Home
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
The author reconstructs for us colonial life by describing in great detail manners, customs, dress, homes, and child life.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Home
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
The author reconstructs for us colonial life by describing in great detail manners, customs, dress, homes, and child life.