Cradle of the Middle Class

The Family in Oneida County, New York, 1790 1865

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Paperback | 24 January 1984

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Winner of the 1981 Bancroft Prize. Focusing primarily on the middle class, this study delineates the social, intellectual and psychological transformation of the American family from 1780-1865. Examines the emergence of the privatized middle-class family with its sharp division of male and female roles.

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Preface
Introduction: locating domesticity
Family, community, and the frontier generation, 1790-1820
Family in transition: the revival cycle, 1813-1838
The era of association: between family and society, 1825-1845
Privacy and the making of the self-made man: family strategies of the middle class at midcentury
A sphere is not a home: woman's larger place in the city at midcentury
Conclusion
Appendices
Notes
Sources and select bibliography
Index
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Cradle of the Middle Class

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