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Author: Scott Slawinski
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-01-07
Total Pages: 139
ISBN-13: 1135467447
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores images of single and married men in C.B. Brown's Monthly Magazine and concludes that Brown used his periodical as a vehicle for validating bachelorhood as a viable alternative form of masculinity.
Author: Patti Clayton Becker
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-09-13
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 1135467722
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWorld War II presented America's public libraries with the daunting challenge of meeting new demands for war-related library services and materials with Depression-weakened collections, inadequate budgets and demoralized staff, in addition to continuing to serve the library's traditional clientele of women and children seeking recreational reading. This work examines how libraries could respond to their communities need through the use of numerous primary and secondary sources.
Author: Vikki Vickers
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008-05-05
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 1135921563
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt is the study of how Thomas Paine's religious beliefs shaped his political ideology and influenced his political activism.
Author: Neal Millikan
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011-05-09
Total Pages: 158
ISBN-13: 1136674454
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLotteries in Colonial America explores lotteries in England and the American colonies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. From the founding of Jamestown to the financing of the American Revolution, lotteries played an important role in the economic life of the colonies. Lotteries provided an alternative form of raising money for colonial governments and a means of subsidizing public and private projects without enacting new taxes. The book also describes and analyzes the role of lotteries in the eighteenth-century consumer revolution, which transformed how buyers viewed the goods they purchased, or in the case of lotteries, won. As the middling classes in the colonies began to acquire objects that went beyond mere necessities, lotteries gave colonists an opportunity to risk a small sum in the hopes of gaining riches or valuable goods. Finally, the book examines how lotteries played a role in the changing notions of fortune in colonial America. Religion and chance were present in colonial lotteries as participants merged their own free will to purchase a lottery ticket with the will of the Christian God to select a winner.
Author: Mary C. McComb
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-09-13
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 1135526877
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGreat Depression and the Middle Class: Experts, Collegiate Youth and Business Ideology, 1929-1941 explores how middle-class college students navigated the rocky terrain of Depression-era culture, job market, dating marketplace, prospective marriage prospects, and college campuses by using expert-penned advice and business ideology to make sense of their situation.
Author: Susan Ouellette
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007-11-21
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 1135862486
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the development of a provincial textile industry in colonial America. Immediately after the end of the Great Migration into the Massachusetts Bay colony, settlers found themselves in a textile crisis. They were not able to generate the kind of export commodities that would enable them to import English textiles in the quantities they required. This study examines the promotion of domestic textile manufacture from the level of the Massachusetts legislature down to the way in which individual communities organized individual productive efforts. Although other historians have examined early cloth production in colonial homes, they have tended to dismiss domestic cloth-making as a casual activity among family members rather than a concerted community effort at economic development. This study looks closely at the networks of production and examines the methods that households and communities organized themselves to meet a very critical need for cloth of all kinds. It is a social history of cloth-making that also employs the economic and political elements of Massachusetts Bay to tell their story.
Author: Susan Hudson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-09-13
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 1135519595
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book recognizes the achievements by a nineteenth-century community of women religious, the Grey Nuns of Lewiston, Maine. The founding of their hospital was significant in its time as the first hospital in that factory city; and is significant today if one desires a more accurate and inclusive history of women and healthcare in America. The fact that this community lived in a hostile, Protestant-dominated, industrial environment while submerged in a French-Canadian Catholic world of ethnicity, tradition and paternalism makes their accomplishments more compelling.
Author: Robin D. Campbell
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-10-28
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 1000143732
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the ways in which mid-19th Century American army officers' wives used material culture to confirm their status as middle-class women.
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Publisher: Routledge
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Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 1135851573
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John J. Fry
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-04-27
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 1135475350
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis project contributes to our understanding of rural Midwesterners and farm newspapers at the turn of the century. While cultural historians have mainly focused on readers in town and cities, it examines Midwestern farmers. It also contributes to the "new rural history" by exploring the ideas of Hal Barron and others that country people selectively adapted the advice given to them by reformers. Finally, it furthers our understanding of American farm newspapers themselves and offers suggestions on how to use them as sources.
