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Alice Morse Earle and the domestic history of early America /

Author, collector, and historian Alice Morse Earle (1851-1911) was among the most important and prolific writers of her day. Between 1890 and 1904, she produced seventeen books as well as numerous articles, pamphlets, and speeches about the life, manners, customs, and material culture of colonial Ne...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Williams, Susan, 1948-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2013]
Colección:Public history in historical perspective.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : hunting for Alice Morse Earle
  • Family matters
  • Parlor culture, public culture
  • New England kismet
  • The China hunter
  • Writing the past
  • Home life and history
  • Remembering the garden
  • Genealogy and the quest for an inherited future
  • Toward new public history
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Chronological bibliography of Alice Morse Earle's works.