| Description |
xxii, 314 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Growing up in rural New England, 1800-1840 / Joseph F. Kett -- Men in motion: some data and speculations about urban population mobility in nineteenth-century America / Stephan Therstrom/Peter R. Knights -- Great American desert and the American frontier, 1800-1882: popular images of the plains / Martyn J. Bowden -- Melodrama as echo of the historically voiceless / David Grimsted -- Slave songs and slave consciousness: an exploration in neglected sources / Lawrence W. Levine -- Free at last / Leon F. Litwack -- Working class mobility in Birmingham, Alabama, 1880-1914 / Paul B. Worthman -- Lay initiative in the religious life of American immigrants, 1880-1950 / Timothy L. Smith -- Mental illness, indigency, and welfare: the mental hospital in nineteenth-century America / Gerald N. Grob -- Middle-class families and urban violence: the experience of a Chicago community in the nineteenth century / Richard Sennett. |
| Subject |
United States -- History.
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United States. |
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History. |
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United States -- Social conditions.
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Social conditions. |
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États-Unis -- Conditions sociales. |
| Added Author |
Hareven, Tamara K.
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| ISBN |
0130383988 |
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9780130383983 |
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