Home Sweet Home: Around the House in the 1800s

by Zachary Chastain

Overview

In rough frontier cabins, tidy farmhouses, and elegant townhouses, Americans in the 1800s were dedicated to living as well and as comfortably as their circumstances allowed. The American home was a sacred institution, the seat of family life where the patriarch ruled with Mother at his side as guardian of the home, and the children were raised with strict discipline and strong values. Changes in taste and fashion, improvements in technology (indoor plumbing and a host of new labor-saving devices), and social change transformed home and family life in the 1800s, as opportunities for leisure activities and commercially produced consumer goods came within reach of the average American. But the strong American tradition of the sanctity of the home, consumerism, and the importance of a happy family life has its roots in the homes of nineteenth-century Americans.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781422296899
Publisher:	Mason Crest
Publication date:	09/29/2014
Series:	Daily Life in America in the 1800s Series
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	64
File size:	16 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	12 - 17 Years

Table of Contents

Introduction 6

Timeline 8

Part I What Makes a House a Home" 13

Part II Cooking, Cleaning, and Keeping House 33

Part III The Victorian House 47

Think About It 60

Words Used in This Book 61

Find Out More 62

Index 63

Picture Credits 64

About the Author and the Consultant 64