Everyday Life In Early America

Author : David F. Hawke
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060912510
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Everyday Life in Early America written by David F. Hawke and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1989-01-25 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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

Author : Dale Taylor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Writer's Guide to Everyday Life in Colonial America written by Dale Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines in detail the topics of architecture, clothing, marriage, family life, economy, arts, and government for each region of colonial America.

Author : Louis Booker Wright
Publisher : Putnam Publishing Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Everyday Life in Colonial America written by Louis Booker Wright and published by Putnam Publishing Group. This book was released on 1966 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A discussion of the average living conditions of the period, including sections on religion, sports, pastimes, and careers. Grades 7-9.

Author : Catherine E. Kelly
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812292952
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Republic of Taste written by Catherine E. Kelly and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-06-22 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the early decades of the eighteenth century, European, and especially British, thinkers were preoccupied with questions of taste. Whether Americans believed that taste was innate—and therefore a marker of breeding and station—or acquired—and thus the product of application and study—all could appreciate that taste was grounded in, demonstrated through, and confirmed by reading, writing, and looking. It was widely believed that shared aesthetic sensibilities connected like-minded individuals and that shared affinities advanced the public good and held great promise for the American republic. Exploring the intersection of the early republic's material, visual, literary, and political cultures, Catherine E. Kelly demonstrates how American thinkers acknowledged the similarities between aesthetics and politics in order to wrestle with questions about power and authority. Judgments about art, architecture, literature, poetry, and the theater became an arena for considering political issues ranging from government structures and legislative representation to qualifications for citizenship and the meaning of liberty itself. Additionally, if taste prompted political debate, it also encouraged affinity grounded in a shared national identity. In the years following independence, ordinary women and men reassured themselves that taste revealed larger truths about an individual's character and potential for republican citizenship. Did an early national vocabulary of taste, then, with its privileged visuality, register beyond the debates over the ratification of the Constitution? Did it truly extend beyond political and politicized discourse to inform the imaginative structures and material forms of everyday life? Republic of Taste affirms that it did, although not in ways that anyone could have predicted at the conclusion of the American Revolution.

Author : Thomas J. Schlereth
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060921609
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Victorian America written by Thomas J. Schlereth and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1992-07-15 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : John Demos
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674034198
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Circles and Lines written by John Demos and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this intimate, engaging book, John Demos offers an illuminating portrait of how colonial Americans, from the first settlers to the postrevolutionary generation, viewed their life experiences. He also offers an invaluable inside look into the craft of a master social historian as he unearths--in sometimes unexpected places--fragments of evidence that help us probe the interior lives of people from the faraway past. The earliest settlers lived in a traditional world of natural cycles that shaped their behavior: day and night; seasonal rhythms; the lunar cycle; the life cycle itself. Indeed, so basic were these elements that "almost no one felt a need to comment on them." Yet he finds cyclical patterns--in the seasonal foods they ate, in the spike in marriages following the autumn harvest. Witchcraft cases reveal the different emotional reactions to day versus night, as accidental mishaps in the light become fearful nighttime mysteries. During the transitional world of the American Revolution, people began to see their society in newer terms but seemed unable or unwilling to come to terms with that novelty. Americans became new, Demos points out, before they fully understood what it meant. Their cyclical frame of reference was coming unmoored, giving way to a linear world view in early nineteenth-century America that is neatly captured by Kentucky doctor Daniel Drake's description of the chronography of his life. In his meditation on these three worlds, Demos brilliantly demonstrates how large historical forces are reflected in individual lives. With the imaginative insights and personable touch that we have come to expect from this fine chronicler of the human condition, "Circles and Lines" is vintage John Demos.

Author : David E. Kyvig
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 031300692X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Daily Life in the United States, 1920-1939 written by David E. Kyvig and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2001-11-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1920s and 1930s, changes in the American population, increasing urbanization, and innovations in technology exerted major influences on the daily lives of ordinary people. Explore how everyday living changed during these years when use of automobiles and home electrification first became commonplace, when radio emerged, and when cinema, with the addition of sound, became broadly popular. Find out how worklife, domestic life, and leisure-time activities were affected by these factors as well as by the politics of the time. Details of matters such as the creation of the pickup truck, the development of radio programming, and the first mass use of cosmetics provide an enjoyable read that brings the period clearly into focus. Centering its attention on the broad masses of the population, this animated reference resource emphasizes the wide variety of experiences of people living through The Roaring Twenties and The Great Depression. Readers will be surprised to discover that some of the assumptions we have about the lives of average Americans during these eras are historically inaccurate. A final chapter provides a unique look at six American communities and gives a vivid sense of the diversity of American experience over the course of these tumultuous years.

Author : Stephanie Grauman Wolf
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 9781610750493
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book As Various as Their Lands: the Everyday Lives of Eighteenth-century Americans(p) written by Stephanie Grauman Wolf and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charlie Samuel
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780823966004
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Entertainment in Colonial America written by Charlie Samuel and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2002-12-15 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the different forms of entertainment during Colonial times, including sports, games, music, and theater.

Author : David Freeman Hawke
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780060158569
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Everyday Life in Early America written by David Freeman Hawke and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1988 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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