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American Family Home, 1800-1960

by Clifford Edward Clark

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In the nineteenth century, architects and family reformers launched promotional campaigns portraying houses no longer as simply physical structures in which families lived but as emblems for family cohesiveness and identity. Clark explains why, despite the fear of standardization and homogenization, the middle class has persisted in viewing the single-family home as the main symbol of independence as as the distinguishing sign of having achieved middle-class status.


Clifford Edward Clark Jr., is M. A. and A. D. Hulings Professor of American Studies and professor of history at Carleton College. He is author of Henry Ward Beecher: Spokesman for a Middle-Class America.
A stimulating book, one that should appeal to readers interested in architecture as well as in family or women's history.

"North Carolina Historical Review"
An excellent and needed study of the important relation between houses and the fabric of American family life.

Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, Scripps College
"A stimulating book, one that should appeal to readers interested in architecture as well as in family or women's history.

"North Carolina Historical Review""
"An excellent and needed study of the important relation between houses and the fabric of American family life.

Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, Scripps College"

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  • University of North Carol Brand
  • Sep 12, 1986 Pub Date:
  • 080784151X ISBN-10:
  • 9780807841518 ISBN-13:
  • 297 Pages
  • 9.95 in * 7.97 in * 0.9 in Dimensions:
  • 2 lb Weight: