Yankee Family
James McGovern, "Yankee Family"
English | ISBN: 113854079X | 2017 | 191 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 113854079X | 2017 | 191 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
The voluminous records of the Pierce and Poor families weave a story that runs from the late eighteenth century until World War I. The extent and qual-ity of their source materials, and their positions as representative middle-class to upper-middle-class New England families, make these subjects of Yankee Family particularly well suited for analyzing processes of continuity and change. McGovern reviews the life-styles of the Pierce and,Poor families both on the frontier and in the Boston area, and focuses on the cross-generational changes in these styles.
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