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1 online resource (xiii, 250 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-244) and index. |
Contents |
ch. 1. Going to housekeeping : creating a frugal and honest home -- ch. 2. Rise of the domiologist : science in the home -- ch. 3. Americanization, model homes, and lace curtains -- ch. 4. Modernism : no junk! is the cry of the new interior -- ch. 5. Color is running riot : character, color, and children -- ch. 6. Our own North American Indians : romancing the past -- ch. 7. Togetherness and the open-space plan. |
Summary |
This study demonstrates that today's domestic advice writers -women such as Martha Stewart, Cheryl Mendelson and B. Smith - are part of a long tradition. Sarah A. Leavitt crafts a cultural history and genealogy of domestic advice, based on her readings of manuals spanning 150 years of history. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Home economics -- History.
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Home economics. |
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History. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Geschiedenis (vorm)
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Other Form: |
Print version: Leavitt, Sarah Abigail. From Catharine Beecher to Martha Stewart. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2002 0807827029 (DLC) 2001054202 (OCoLC)48222669 |
ISBN |
0807860387 (electronic book) |
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9780807860380 (electronic book) |
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0807827029 (alkaline paper) |
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9780807827024 (alkaline paper) |
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0807853712 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780807853719 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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