Domestic Revolutions: A Social History Of American Family Life / Edition 1

Domestic Revolutions: A Social History Of American Family Life / Edition 1

ISBN-10:
002921291X
ISBN-13:
9780029212912
Pub. Date:
04/03/1989
Publisher:
Free Press
ISBN-10:
002921291X
ISBN-13:
9780029212912
Pub. Date:
04/03/1989
Publisher:
Free Press
Domestic Revolutions: A Social History Of American Family Life / Edition 1

Domestic Revolutions: A Social History Of American Family Life / Edition 1

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Overview

Based on a wide reading of letters, diaries and other contemporary documents, Mintz, an historian, and Kellogg, an anthropologist, examine the changing definition of “family” in the United States over the course of the last three centuries, beginning with the modified European model of the earliest settlers. From there they survey the changes in the families of whites (working class, immigrants, and middle class) and blacks (slave and free) since the Colonial years, and identify four deep changes in family structure and ideology: the democratic family, the companionate family, the family of the 1950s, and lastly, the family of the '80s, vulnerable to societal changes but still holding together.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780029212912
Publisher: Free Press
Publication date: 04/03/1989
Pages: 352
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Steven Mintz is associate professor of history at the University of Houston.

Susan Kellogg, wife to Steven Mintz, has taught anthropology at Oberlin College, Sweet Briar College, and the University of Houston.
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