The Character of the Family in Rural California, 1850-1890
Author: Robert Lawrence Griswold
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Published: 1979
Total Pages: 566
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Author: Robert Lawrence Griswold
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Published: 1979
Total Pages: 566
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Published: 1979
Total Pages: 594
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Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1983-06-30
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 1438405057
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFamily and Divorce in California succeeds in reconstructing the private world of farmers, laborers, small-town merchants tradesmen, and housewives through an examination of local newspapers, census data, legal documents, and, above all, divorce records during the years 1850 to 1890. Some 400 divorce cases from two rural counties form the core of the study. Here we see how the compassionate ideal, the cult of true womanhood, and the work ethic actually affected the attitudes and behavior of working-class and rural as well as urban, middle-class people. A wide variety of topics is covered: basic family values women's health, work, sexuality, character, and indepdence men's work, sexual conduct, and affective retions the nature of parenthood, childhood, and marital companionship domestic violenc The book also explores the early years of the divorce crisis that began in the 1880s and answers the questions of how and why it developed.
Author: Karen Leonard
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2010-08-17
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 1439903646
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Author: William T. Vollmann
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2009-07-30
Total Pages: 1789
ISBN-13: 1101105151
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the author of Europe Central, winner of the National Book Award, a journalistic tour de force along the Mexican-American border – a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award For generations of migrant workers, Imperial Country has held the promise of paradise and the reality of hell. It sprawls across a stirring accidental sea, across the deserts, date groves and labor camps of Southeastern California, right across the border into Mexico. In this eye-opening book, William T. Vollmann takes us deep into the heart of this haunted region, exploring polluted rivers and guarded factories and talking with everyone from Mexican migrant workers to border patrolmen. Teeming with patterns, facts, stories, people and hope, this is an epic study of an emblematic region.
Author: Michael G. Kammen
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Published: 1980
Total Pages: 532
ISBN-13: 9780801412240
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Is there a distinctive American style of historical scholarship? To what extent have quantitative methods and computer technology affected the writing of history? Has descriptive history been supplanted by analytical history? What constitutes adequate historical explanation? These are just a few of the questions addresed in "The Past Before Us." The contributors, twenty-one distinguished historians, discuss the state of their profession today and describe their interests, activities, and problems. Reflecting new and exciting trends in historical research, their essays, taken together, provide a searching assessment of the major advances in historical methods as well as in historical knowledge during the 1970s"--Jacket.
Author: Warren F. Kuehl
Publisher: Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-Clio
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 496
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 136
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Published: 1976
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Published: 1988
Total Pages: 548
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