Author: Arthur Wallace CalhounPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Families
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
V. I. Colonial period -- v. II. From Independence through the Civil War -- v. III. Since the civil war.
A Social History of the American Family from Colonial Times to the Present
Author: Arthur Wallace CalhounPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Families
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
V. I. Colonial period -- v. II. From Independence through the Civil War -- v. III. Since the civil war.
Domestic Revolutions
Author: Steven MintzPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439105103
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 603
Book Description
An examination of how the concept of “family” has been transformed over the last three centuries in the U.S., from its function as primary social unit to today’s still-evolving model. Based on a wide reading of letters, diaries and other contemporary documents, Mintz, an historian, and Kellogg, an anthropologist, examine the changing definition of “family” in the United States over the course of the last three centuries, beginning with the modified European model of the earliest settlers. From there they survey the changes in the families of whites (working class, immigrants, and middle class) and blacks (slave and free) since the Colonial years, and identify four deep changes in family structure and ideology: the democratic family, the companionate family, the family of the 1950s, and lastly, the family of the '80s, vulnerable to societal changes but still holding together.
The American Year Book
Author: Albert Bushnell HartPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Almanacs, American
Languages : en
Pages : 904
Book Description
The American Year Book
Author: The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918
Author: VariousPublisher: Litres
ISBN: 5041706506
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 757
Book Description
Historical Outlook
Author: History Teacher's Magazine
Author: Domestic Tyranny
Author: Elizabeth Hafkin PleckPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252071751
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Elizabeth Pleck's Domestic Tyranny chronicles the rise and demise of legal, political, and medical campaigns against domestic violence from colonial times to the present. Based on in-depth research into court records, newspaper accounts, and autobiographies, this book argues that the single most consistent barrier to reform against domestic violence has been the Family Ideal--that is, ideas about family privacy, conjugal and parental rights, and family stability. This edition features a new introduction surveying the multinational and cultural themes now present in recent historical writing about family violence.
The End of American Childhood
Author: Paula S. FassPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691178208
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
How American childhood and parenting have changed from the nation's founding to the present The End of American Childhood takes a sweeping look at the history of American childhood and parenting, from the nation's founding to the present day. Renowned historian Paula Fass shows how, since the beginning of the American republic, independence, self-definition, and individual success have informed Americans' attitudes toward children. But as parents today hover over every detail of their children's lives, are the qualities that once made American childhood special still desired or possible? Placing the experiences of children and parents against the backdrop of social, political, and cultural shifts, Fass challenges Americans to reconnect with the beliefs that set the American understanding of childhood apart from the rest of the world. Fass examines how freer relationships between American children and parents transformed the national culture, altered generational relationships among immigrants, helped create a new science of child development, and promoted a revolution in modern schooling. She looks at the childhoods of icons including Margaret Mead and Ulysses S. Grant—who, as an eleven-year-old, was in charge of his father's fields and explored his rural Ohio countryside. Fass also features less well-known children like ten-year-old Rose Cohen, who worked in the drudgery of nineteenth-century factories. Bringing readers into the present, Fass argues that current American conditions and policies have made adolescence socially irrelevant and altered children's road to maturity, while parental oversight threatens children's competence and initiative. Showing how American parenting has been firmly linked to historical changes, The End of American Childhood considers what implications this might hold for the nation's future.
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