The American family has undergone a series of transformations from its socially sanctified role as the center of society to today's private, independent unit. The authors explain just how the family has adapted and endured these changes.
The American family has undergone a series of transformations from its socially sanctified role as the center of society to today's private, independe...
Like Huck's raft, the experience of American childhood has been both adventurous and terrifying. For more than three centuries, adults have agonized over raising children while children have followed their own paths to development and expression. Now, Steven Mintz gives us the first comprehensive history of American childhood encompassing both the child's and the adult's tumultuous early years of life.
Underscoring diversity through time and across regions, Mintz traces the transformation of children from the sinful creatures perceived by Puritans to the productive workers of...
Like Huck's raft, the experience of American childhood has been both adventurous and terrifying. For more than three centuries, adults have agonize...
A collective effort to present a new kind of moral history, this volume seeks to show how the study of the past can illuminate profound ethical and philosophical issues. More specifically, the contributors address a variety of questions raised by the history of American slavery. How did freedom--personal, civic, and political--become one of the most cherished values in the Western world? How has the language of slavery been applied to other instances of exploitation and depersonalization? To what extent is America's high homicide rate a legacy of slavery? Did the abolitionist movement's...
A collective effort to present a new kind of moral history, this volume seeks to show how the study of the past can illuminate profound ethical and ph...
An introduction synthesizes the latest anthropological, archaeological, historical, and sociological scholarship and the 95 carefully edited selections provide students with an overview of Native American history from the earliest migrations to the present.
The volume includes a chronology, glossary, and bibliography, making it a valuable teaching tool.
An introduction synthesizes the latest anthropological, archaeological, historical, and sociological scholarship and the 95 carefully edited selection...
A succinct, up-to-date overview of the history of slavery that places American slavery in comparative perspective.
Provides students with more than 70 primary documents on the history of slavery in America
Includes extensive excerpts from slave narratives, interviews with former slaves, and letters by African Americans that document the experience of bondage
Comprehensive headnotes introduce each selection
A Visual History chapter provides images to supplement the written documents
Includes an extensive...
A succinct, up-to-date overview of the history of slavery that places American slavery in comparative perspective.
A succinct, up-to-date overview of the history of slavery that places American slavery in comparative perspective.
Provides students with more than 70 primary documents on the history of slavery in America
Includes extensive excerpts from slave narratives, interviews with former slaves, and letters by African Americans that document the experience of bondage
Comprehensive headnotes introduce each selection
A Visual History chapter provides images to supplement the written documents
Includes an extensive...
A succinct, up-to-date overview of the history of slavery that places American slavery in comparative perspective.
Adulthood today is undergoing profound transformations. Men and women wait until their thirties to marry, have children, and establish full-time careers, occupying a prolonged period in which they are no longer adolescents but still lack the traditional emblems of adult identity. People at midlife struggle to sustain relationships with friends and partners, to find employment and fulfilling careers, to raise their children successfully, and to resist the aging process.
The Prime of Life puts today's challenges into new perspective by exploring how past generations navigated...
Adulthood today is undergoing profound transformations. Men and women wait until their thirties to marry, have children, and establish full-time ca...
