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Victorian America: Transformations in Everyday Life
A valuable and compelling portrait of the daily life of Americans during the Victorian era--the fourth volume in the Everyday Life in America series
Paperback, 363 pages
Published
January 15th 1997
by Longman
(first published 1991)
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Read this for my history class and found it really interesting as a in-depth overview of Victorian America, how they worked, played, lived and died. This book showed me that, while many things like technology have changed, the concerns and debates of Victorian America is very similar to the present day. We're still debating immigration. We're still debating how great a role government should play in individual lives. Even though that wasn't the intent of this book, it is what I walked away with ...more
To someone wanting a general overview of American life in the Victorian era this book would fair quite boring. However, someone wanting an extensive overview, this book would fair quite informative. It's filled will fact after fact.
The book is well separated with such chapters as: Moving, Working, Housing, Consuming, Communicating, Playing, Striving and Living and Dying. Each covering from 1876-1915.
With many books covering this time period in European countries, it's ni...more
The book is well separated with such chapters as: Moving, Working, Housing, Consuming, Communicating, Playing, Striving and Living and Dying. Each covering from 1876-1915.
With many books covering this time period in European countries, it's ni...more
An interesting easily read narrative on various 'themes' i.e. categories of life in the period arranged according to category rather than chronologically.
Read this one for a class. It was a bit of an info dump, and my head reeled a bit. But overall I liked it. Didn't read the last few chapters, but only due to a packed reading schedule.
Fascinating collection of facts about many aspects of everyday life during the period 1876-1915. The author does an excellent job of showing how this was one cohesive period in the United States. It was a period of great change and modernity, yet before those devices such as the telephone and the airplane, which began bringing more uniformity between continents and countries.
Picked this one up a few months ago. My colleague at Roanoke College teaches a course in this topic and actually uses this as her text book. The text is very readable and not too "scholarly" in style. The photographs were not reproduced well. Very interesting and an good intro for anyone interested in this time period. Bibliography at the end useful for exploring further.
Same as the other books in the series, lots of great detail, but there's so much literature from this period that we still read that it's much more familiar, and you don't have as much a sense of discovery. Great if you're writing something set in the period, though.
Covers social behaviors of Americans for the last 45 years of the Victorian era. Some things have been around a lot longer than one would think.
Not a book to just sit down and read all the way through, but it is interesting to read.
Not a book to just sit down and read all the way through, but it is interesting to read.
Used as a reference for many years and read cover to cover in 2004. Very useful book. Dry and factual in parts and very interesting in others.
about every 10 pages of reading this book I exclaim "holy shit!" It is both wonderfully informative and wonderfully written.
And so begins the thesis research....
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