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The Boardinghouse in Nineteenth-Century America
The Boardinghouse in NineteenthCentury America
Author: Wendy Gamber
In nineteenth-century America, the bourgeois home epitomized family, morality, and virtue. But this era also witnessed massive urban growth and the acceptance of the market as the overarching model for economic relations. A rapidly changing environment bred the antithesis of "home": the urban boardinghouse. In this groundbreaking study, Wendy Ga...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780801885716
ISBN-10: 080188571X
Publication Date: 4/9/2007
Pages: 240
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Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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