Elizabeth House Trist and the American Adam
Author | : Amanda Lynn Irvin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 90 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Frontier and pioneer life |
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Author | : Amanda Lynn Irvin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 90 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Frontier and pioneer life |
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Author | : Kathleen M. Brown |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 465 |
Release | : 2009-01-01 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 0300160275 |
In colonial times few Americans bathed regularly; by the mid-1800s, a cleanliness “revolution” had begun. Why this change, and what did it signify? A nation’s standards of private cleanliness reveal much about its ideals of civilization, fears of disease, and expectations for public life, says Kathleen Brown in this unusual cultural history. Starting with the shake-up of European practices that coincided with Atlantic expansion, she traces attitudes toward “dirt” through the mid-nineteenth century, demonstrating that cleanliness—and the lack of it—had moral, religious, and often sexual implications. Brown contends that care of the body is not simply a private matter but an expression of cultural ideals that reflect the fundamental values of a society.The book explores early America’s evolving perceptions of cleanliness, along the way analyzing the connections between changing public expectations for appearance and manners, and the backstage work of grooming, laundering, and housecleaning performed by women. Brown provides an intimate view of cleanliness practices and how such forces as urbanization, immigration, market conditions, and concerns about social mobility influenced them. Broad in historical scope and imaginative in its insights, this book expands the topic of cleanliness to encompass much larger issues, including religion, health, gender, class, and race relations.
Author | : Susanna Delfino |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2003-10-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0807861308 |
Although historians over the past two decades have written extensively on the plantation mistress and the slave woman, they have largely neglected the world of the working woman. Neither Lady nor Slave pushes southern history beyond the plantation to examine the lives and labors of ordinary southern women--white, free black, and Indian. Contributors to this volume illuminate women's involvement in the southern market economy in all its diversity. Thirteen essays explore the working lives of a wide range of women--nuns and prostitutes, iron workers and basket weavers, teachers and domestic servants--in urban and rural settings across the antebellum South. By highlighting contrasts between paid and unpaid, officially acknowledged and "invisible" work within the context of cultural attitudes regarding women's proper place in society, the book sheds new light on the ambiguities that marked relations between race, class, and gender in the modernizing South. The contributors are E. Susan Barber, Bess Beatty, Emily Bingham, James Taylor Carson, Emily Clark, Stephanie Cole, Susanna Delfino, Michele Gillespie, Sarah Hill, Barbara J. Howe, Timothy J. Lockley, Stephanie McCurry, Diane Batts Morrow, and Penny L. Richards.
Author | : Kym S. Rice |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Travel |
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Author | : Susan Cheever |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2007-09-18 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0743264622 |
A portrait of five Concord, Massachusetts, writers whose works were at the center of mid-nineteenth-century American thought and literature evaluates their interconnected relationships, influence on each other's works, and complex beliefs.
Author | : Cassandra A. Good |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2015-01-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199376182 |
"When Harry Met Sally" is only the most iconic of popular American movies, books, and articles that pose the question of whether friendships between men and women are possible. In Founding Friendships, Cassandra A. Good shows that this question was embedded in and debated as far back as the birth of the American nation. Indeed, many of the nation's founding fathers had female friends but popular rhetoric held that these relationships were fraught with social danger, if not impossible. Elite men and women formed loving, politically significant friendships in the early national period that were crucial to the individuals' lives as well as the formation of a new national political system, as Cassandra Good illuminates. Abigail Adams called her friend Thomas Jefferson "one of the choice ones on earth," while George Washington signed a letter to his friend Elizabeth Powel with the words "I am always Yours." Their emotionally rich language is often mistaken for romance, but by analyzing period letters, diaries, novels, and etiquette books, Good reveals that friendships between men and women were quite common. At a time when personal relationships were deeply political, these bonds offered both parties affection and practical assistance as well as exemplified republican values of choice, freedom, equality, and virtue. In so doing, these friendships embodied the core values of the new nation and represented a transitional moment in gender and culture. Northern and Southern, famous and lesser known, the men and women examined in Founding Friendships offer a fresh look at how the founding generation defined and experienced friendship, love, gender, and power.
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 2248 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : Contractors |
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Author | : Priscilla Sears |
Publisher | : Popular Press |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780879721947 |
A Pillar of Fire to Follow concerns the Indian dramas, a series of popular, nineteenth-century American melodramas that deal with the interaction of Indians and Anglo-Europeans. Priscilla Sears has analyzed these works from a mythological point of view, concentrating on the myths of Indian and Anglo-European identity and destiny and the ways in which they relieve the guilt emanating from contemporary Indian policy and the symbolic betrayal of fathers.
Author | : David Bowles |
Publisher | : Plum Creek Press, Inc. |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2009-09-18 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780977748419 |
The Mitchells just wanted to be left alone to farm their land, practice their faith, and raise their family. But their response to the extraordinary circumstances of frontier life, politics, and war made heroes of these ordinary citizens. Adam fought the British, while his mother, wife, and children endured deprivation and danger on the family farm in the midst of the battle.
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 692 |
Release | : 1924 |
Genre | : United States |
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