| Domestic Revolutions: A Social History of American Family Life Contributor(s): Mintz, Steven (Author), Kellogg, Susan (Author) |
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ISBN: 002921291X ISBN-13: 9780029212912 Publisher: Free Press OUR PRICE: $21.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1989 Annotation: The American family has undergone a series of transformations from its socially sanctified role as the center of society to today's private, independent unit. The authors explain just how the family has adapted and endured these changes. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - Colonial Period (1600-1775) - Social Science | Sociology - Marriage & Family |
| Dewey: 306.850 |
| LCCN: 87027551 |
| Physical Information: 0.87" H x 6.02" W x 9.11" (1.17 lbs) 352 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Based on a wide reading of letters, diaries and other contemporary documents, Mintz, an historian, and Kellogg, an anthropologist, examine the changing definition of "family" in the United States over the course of the last three centuries, beginning with the modified European model of the earliest settlers. From there they survey the changes in the families of whites (working class, immigrants, and middle class) and blacks (slave and free) since the Colonial years, and identify four deep changes in family structure and ideology: the democratic family, the companionate family, the family of the 1950s, and lastly, the family of the '80s, vulnerable to societal changes but still holding together. |