Author: Jack LarkinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
The reshaping of everyday life 1790-1840
Author: Jack LarkinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
The Reshaping of Everyday Life, 1790–1840
Author: Jack LarkinPublisher: 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. HawkePublisher: 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 Lived
Author: Jack LarkinPublisher: Taunton Press
ISBN: 1561588474
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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.
Expansion of Everyday Life (p)
Author: Daniel E. SutherlandPublisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 9781610751452
Category : Buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Where We Worked
Author: Jack LarkinPublisher: 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.
Victorian America
Author: Thomas J. SchlerethPublisher: 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
Everyday Life in the 1800s
Author: Marc McCutcheonPublisher: 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.
Betsy Ross and the Making of America
Author: Marla R. MillerPublisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429952377
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 479
Book Description
A richly woven biography of the beloved patriot Betsy Ross, and an enthralling portrait of everyday life in Revolutionary War-era Philadelphia Betsy Ross and the Making of America is the first comprehensively researched and elegantly written biography of one of America's most captivating figures of the Revolutionary War. Drawing on new sources and bringing a fresh, keen eye to the fabled creation of "the first flag," Marla R. Miller thoroughly reconstructs the life behind the legend. This authoritative work provides a close look at the famous seamstress while shedding new light on the lives of the artisan families who peopled the young nation and crafted its tools, ships, and homes. Betsy Ross occupies a sacred place in the American consciousness, and Miller's winning narrative finally does her justice. This history of the ordinary craftspeople of the Revolutionary War and their most famous representative will be the definitive volume for years to come.
As Various as Their Land
Author: Stephanie Grauman WolfPublisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 9780060925376
Category : Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Period journals, letters, and other writings portray family and social structures, class boundaries, ethnic identities, habits, and lifestyles of the American colonists.