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Yankee Family (Hardcover)
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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. The study begins with
John Pierce at Harvard in the 1790s and follows through to the
first decade of the twen-tieth century. The author shows how the
"Yankee" mentality, an outgrowth of New England Puritanism,
contributed to the family's rise to success, but con-cludes that by
the early twentieth cen-tury the Yankee life-style was ending, a
victim of social and economic changes in American society that were
rendering it irrelevant. Until recently historical scholarship on
the American family has been static. Apart from long-standing
predilections of historians for political history, there were also
theoretical and meth-odological problems deterring schol-arship on
the American family. But McGovern's approach holds great promise;
it is more sensitive than quan-tification studies to the impact of
change on a wider range of human expe-riences because it is
inevitably more personal. While this type of family his-tory
rewards students of social change, it also affords important
insights on con-tinuity. It reveals the existence of a family style
which adapts to change with a special corpus of family wisdom,
al-ways finding a way to exercise its "known" amidst constant flux
thus mitigating some of the effects of change.
General
Imprint: |
Routledge
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
November 2017 |
First published: |
1975 |
Authors: |
James McGovern
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
191 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-138-54079-8 |
Categories: |
Books >
Humanities >
History >
General
Books >
History >
General
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LSN: |
1-138-54079-X |
Barcode: |
9781138540798 |
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