Who Built America V1 & Sovereignty and Goodness of God

History

Lichtenstein, Nelson

American Social History Project

Clark, Christopher

Strasser, Susan

Hewitt, Nancy

Rosenzweig, Roy

Rowlandson, Mary

Americas

Bedford/St.Martin's

NEVER DONE: HIST HSEWRK

Parenting & Relationships

Pantheon

A history of modern marketing traces the evolution of advertising, production, and sales techniques from the turn of the century to the present day

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Business & Money

Finance

Traces the history and development of housework, household technology, and the lifestyles of American housewives from the nineteenth century to the present

Never Done

Politics & Social Sciences

Women's Studies

Who Built America Volume 2 and CD-Rom: Volume 2: From 1877 to Present

Who Built America Volume 1 and Who Built America Volume 2: Volume 2: From 1877 to Present

Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash

A social history of trash traces America's evolution in just a century from a country that reused everything and lived intimately close to filth, to a nation obsessed with disposability and cleanliness. 12,500 first printing.

Economics

Metropolitan Books

An unprecedented look at that most commonplace act of everyday life-throwing things out-and how it has transformed American society.
Susan Strasser's pathbreaking histories of housework and the rise of the mass market have become classics in the literature of consumer culture. Here she turns to an essential but neglected part of that culture-the trash it produces-and finds in it an unexpected wealth of meaning. 
Before the twentieth century, streets and bodies stank, but trash was nearly nonexistent. With goods and money scarce, almost everything was reused. Strasser paints a vivid picture of an America where scavenger pigs roamed the streets, swill children collected kitchen garbage, and itinerant peddlers traded manufactured goods for rags and bones. Over the last hundred years, however, Americans have become hooked on convenience, disposability, fashion, and constant technological change-the rise of mass consumption has led to waste on a previously unimaginable scale.
Lively and colorful, Waste and Want recaptures a hidden part of our social history, vividly illustrating that what counts as trash depends on who's counting, and that what we throw away defines us as much as what we keep.

Holt Paperbacks

Finally back in print, with a new Preface by the author, this lively, authoritative, and pathbreaking study considers the history of material advances and domestic service, the "women's separate sphere," and the respective influences of advertising, home economics, and women's entry into the workforce. Never Done begins by describing the household chores of nineteenth-century America: cooking at fireplaces and on cast-iron stoves, laundry done with boilers and flatirons, endless water-hauling and fire-tending, and so on. Strasser goes on to explain and explore how industrialization transformed the nature of women's work. Easing some tasks and eliminating others, new commercial processes inexorably altered women's daily lives and relationships—with each other and with those they served.

Never Done: A History of American Housework

Historical Study & Educational Resources

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