Child Life in Colonial Days (American Classics) - Softcover

Alice Morse Earle

Softcover

ISBN 10: 093639952X ISBN 13: 9780936399522

Publisher: Countryman Press, 1993

Synopsis

An intriguing look at every aspect of children's life in the new republic.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

At the end of the 19th century, after Americans had endured thirty years of tremendous change due to rapid industrial growth, social upheavals, and the excesses of the Gilded Age, they began to look back with increasing fondness to their own past. The Colonial Revival in architecture was one fruit of this nostalgia; another was the insightful chronicles of social history in earlier days written by Alice Morse Earle. Following the success of her book Home Life in Colonial Days, Alice Morse Earle wrote a detailed and fascinating account of American children and their lives from the very earliest settlers to the first decades of the new republic. Covering everything from dress to toys, schools to play, discipline and religion, she described in highly readable prose a child's life in the days before the railroad and telegraph. Her book has endured for a century, enthralling readers and inspiring scholars to new research into the field.

About this edition

• Publisher: Countryman Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 093639952X
• ISBN 13: 9780936399522
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 450