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As various as their land : the everyday lives of eighteenth century Americans /

Period journals, letters, and other writings portray family and social structures, class boundaries, ethnic identities, habits, and lifestyles of the American colonists.

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Main Author: Wolf, Stephanie Grauman.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : HarperPerennial, 1994, ©1993.
Edition:1st HarperPerennial ed.
Series:Everyday life in America series
Subjects and Genres:
To 1783
Manners and customs.
Dagelijks leven.
United States > Social life and customs > To 1775.
United States > Social life and customs > 1775-1783.
United States.
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Table of Contents:
  • The home front. The domestic economy
  • Be it ever so humble
  • Human dynamics
  • The invention of childhood
  • The workaday world. Making land and reaping the rewards
  • "Tinker, tailor ... merchant chief"
  • The public domain. Community : neighborhood
  • Community : networks.

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