The American Family Home, 1800-1960 - Softcover

Clark, Clifford Edward

Softcover

ISBN 10: 080784151X ISBN 13: 9780807841518

Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press, 1986

Synopsis

In the nineteenth century, architects and family reformers launched promotional campaigns portraying houses no longer as simply physical structures in which families lived but as emblems for family cohesiveness and identity. Clark explains why, despite the fear of standardization and homogenization, the middle class has persisted in viewing the single-family home as the main symbol of independence as as the distinguishing sign of having achieved middle-class status.

About this title

Review:

"An excellent and needed study of the important relation between houses and the fabric of American family life.

Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, Scripps College"

"A stimulating book, one that should appeal to readers interested in architecture as well as in family or women's history.

"North Carolina Historical Review""

An excellent and needed study of the important relation between houses and the fabric of American family life.

Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, Scripps College

A stimulating book, one that should appeal to readers interested in architecture as well as in family or women's history.

"North Carolina Historical Review"

About the Author:

Clifford Edward Clark Jr., is M. A. and A. D. Hulings Professor of American Studies and professor of history at Carleton College. He is author of Henry Ward Beecher: Spokesman for a Middle-Class America.

About this edition

• Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 080784151X
• ISBN 13: 9780807841518
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 298