ENGLISH

Home sweet home : around the house in the 1800s

By Zachary , Chastain

Book information

Publisher
National Highlights Inc;Mason Crest Publishers
Year
2011
ISBN
978-1-4222-1781-8, 1422217817, 978-1-4222-1854-9, 1422218546, 978-1-4222-1774-0, 978-1-4222-1847-1, 47-2011-392-3
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
15 MB (15866427 bytes)
Series
Daily life in America in the 1800s
Pages
64\0
Time added
2017-08-15 11:00:00
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Description

In rough frontier cabins, tidy farmhouses, and elegant townhouses, Americans in the 1800s were dedicated to living as well and as comfortably as their circumstances allowed. The American home was a sacred institution, the seat of family life where the patriarch ruled with Mother at his side as guardian of the home, and the children were raised with strict discipline and strong values. Changes in taste and fashion, improvements in technology (indoor plumbing and a host of new labor-saving devices), and social change transformed home and family life in the 1800s, as opportunities for leisure activities and commercially produced consumer goods came within reach of the average American. But the strong American tradition of the sanctity of the home, consumerism, and the importance of a happy family life has its roots in the homes of nineteenth-century Americans.

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