Alice Morse Earle and the domestic history of early America /

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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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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Williams, Susan, 1948-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2013]
Series:Public history in historical perspective.
Subjects:
Earle, Alice Morse, > 1851-1911.
Earle, Alice Morse, > 1851-1911
To 1775
Home economics > United States > Historiography.
Material culture > United States > Historiography.
Women historians > United States > Biography.
Historians > United States > Biography.
Économie domestique > États-Unis > Historiographie.
Culture matérielle > États-Unis > Historiographie.
Historiennes > États-Unis > Biographies.
Historiens > États-Unis > Biographies.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
Historians
Manners and customs > Historiography
Women historians
New England > Social life and customs > To 1775 > Historiography.
United States > Social life and customs > To 1775 > Historiography.
Nouvelle-Angleterre > Mœurs et coutumes > Jusqu'à 1775 > Historiographie.
États-Unis > Mœurs et coutumes > Jusqu'à 1775 > Historiographie.
New England
United States
Biographies
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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