The American Home: Material Culture, Domestic Space, and Family Life
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Book Description
The 15 essays in this volume provide an important look at the American home and all that it encompasses and embodies. Distinguished scholars from a variety of disciplines explore such diverse topics as the technology of the home, consumption and lifestyle, housework, and the interior and its furnishings.
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First presented at the 1992 Winterthur Conference of the same name, the fifteen essays herein explore the material culture, history, and essence of the American house and home. The essays span the period from the mid seventeenth to the early twentieth century and address a variety of topics. Invaluable commentary from a presidential family, plantation masters and mistresses, a Puritan husband, a doctor's widow, servants, slaves, children, and many others offer a vivid picture of the true meaning of home life during the four-century period.
The American Home: Material Culture, Domestic Space, and Family Life
The American Home: Material Culture, Domestic Space, and Family Life,Eleanor McD Thompson,Winterthur Museum,0912724498,Aladdin Company,Architecture,Bungalows,Customs & Traditions,Domestic,History - General,Prefabricated houses,Residential Buildings Architecture,Sociology - General,U.S. Architecture - General,United States,Vernacular Architecture,Cultural studies,USA
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