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Perfectly average the pursuit of normality in postwar America Anna G. Creadick

Author:
Creadick, Anna G. 1967-  Search this
Physical description:
xii, 191 pages illustrations 24 cm
Type:
Books
History
Place:
United States
États-Unis
Date:
2010
20th century
20e siècle
1945-
Topic:
National characteristics, American  Search this
Body image--Social aspects--History  Search this
Middle class--History  Search this
Sex in popular culture--History  Search this
Community life--History  Search this
Image du corps--Aspect social--Histoire  Search this
Classes moyennes--Histoire  Search this
Sexualité dans la culture populaire--Histoire  Search this
Communauté--Histoire  Search this
History  Search this
Body image--Social aspects  Search this
Civilization  Search this
Community life  Search this
Middle class  Search this
Sex in popular culture  Search this
Social conditions  Search this
Civilisation  Search this
Conditions sociales  Search this
Data Source:
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1147566
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The making of the English middle class : business, society, and family life in London, 1660-1730 / Peter Earle

Author:
Earle, Peter 1937-  Search this
Physical description:
xiii, 446 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
England
London
Date:
1989
17th century
Topic:
Middle class--History  Search this
Call number:
HT690.G7E27 1989X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_387937
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The middle-class city : transforming space and time in Philadelphia, 1876-1926 / John Henry Hepp IV

Author:
Hepp, John Henry  Search this
Physical description:
ix, 278 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Philadelphia (Pa.)
Date:
2003
C2003
Topic:
Middle class--History  Search this
Cities and towns--Growth  Search this
City planning--History  Search this
Department stores--History  Search this
Urban transportation--History  Search this
Newspaper reading--History  Search this
History  Search this
Social life and customs  Search this
Data Source:
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_716749
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Rulers, townsmen, and bazaars : north Indian society in the age of British expansion, 1770-1870 / C.A. Bayly

Author:
Bayly, C. A (Christopher Alan)  Search this
Physical description:
xiii, 489 p. : maps ; 22 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
India
Date:
1988
19th century
Topic:
Middle class--History  Search this
Merchants--History  Search this
Cities and towns--History  Search this
Politics and government  Search this
Social conditions  Search this
Call number:
HT690.I4 B39 1988
Data Source:
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_870279
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The emergence of the middle class : social experience in the American city, 1760-1900 / Stuart M. Blumin

Author:
Blumin, Stuart M  Search this
Physical description:
xiii, 434 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
United States
Date:
1989
18th century
19th century
Topic:
Middle class--History  Search this
Call number:
HT690.U6B58 1989X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_397918
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Family fortunes : men and women of the English middle class, 1780-1850 / Leonore Davidoff and Catherine Hall

Author:
Davidoff, Leonore  Search this
Hall, Catherine  Search this
Physical description:
576 p. : ill., geneal. table, maps ; 25 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
England
Date:
1987
C1987
18th century
19th century
Topic:
Middle class--History--Case studies  Search this
Middle class women--History--Case studies  Search this
Call number:
HT690.G7D38 1987X
Data Source:
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_398170
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Colonialism, class formation, and underdevelopment in Sierra Leone / Eliphas G. Mukonoweshuro

Author:
Mukonoweshuro, Eliphas G. 1953-  Search this
Physical description:
x, 257 p. ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Sierra Leone
Date:
1993
C1993
To 1961
To 1896
1896-1961
Topic:
Middle class--History  Search this
Capitalism--History  Search this
Decolonization--History  Search this
Social conditions  Search this
Economic conditions  Search this
Call number:
HN833.Z9 M85 1993
Data Source:
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_727090
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Boardwalk of dreams : Atlantic City and the fate of urban America / Bryant Simon

Author:
Simon, Bryant  Search this
Subject:
Simon, Bryant  Search this
Physical description:
xii, 285 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Type:
Books
Biography
Place:
New Jersey
Atlantic City
Atlantic City (N.J.)
Date:
2004
C2004
Topic:
City and town life--History  Search this
Middle class--History  Search this
History  Search this
Social conditions  Search this
Data Source:
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_740302
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Provincial lives : middle-class experience in the antebellum Middle West / Timothy R. Mahoney

Author:
Mahoney, Timothy R. 1953-  Search this
Physical description:
x, 334 p. : 9 ill., 7 maps ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Middle West
Date:
1999
19th century
Topic:
Middle class--History  Search this
Social conditions  Search this
Social life and customs  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_720483
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Young, white, and miserable : growing up female in the fifties / Wini Breines

Author:
Breines, Wini  Search this
Physical description:
xvii, 261 p. ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
United States
Date:
1992
C1992
20th century
1945-1960
1945-
Topic:
Teenage girls--Social conditions  Search this
Middle class--History  Search this
Social history  Search this
Social conditions  Search this
Call number:
HQ798.B66 1991X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_433150
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Art, audiences, and the aesthetics of social order in antebellum America : Rembrandt Peale's Court of death / by Ellen Hickey Grayson

Title:
Rembrandt Peale's Court of death
Author:
Grayson, Ellen Hickey  Search this
Subject:
Peale, Rembrandt 1778-1860 Court of Death  Search this
Physical description:
xiii, 696 leaves : ill
Type:
Exhibitions
Place:
United States
Date:
1995
19th century
Topic:
Art and society--History  Search this
Art  Search this
Art exhibition audiences  Search this
Middle class--History  Search this
Art--Marketing  Search this
Neoclassicism (Art)  Search this
Romanticism  Search this
Individualism  Search this
Call number:
N40.1.P352 G7 1995a
Data Source:
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_493211
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Give the people what they want : the American aesthetic movement, art worlds, and consumer culture, 1876-1890 / Sylvia L. Yount

Author:
Yount, Sylvia  Search this
Physical description:
xviii, 457 leaves : ill
Type:
Manuscripts
Place:
United States
Date:
1995
19th century
1865-1918
Topic:
Arts and society--History  Search this
Arts, American  Search this
Popular culture--History  Search this
Middle class--History  Search this
Consumers--History  Search this
Civilization  Search this
Call number:
NX180.S6 Y82 1995a
Data Source:
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_492849
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The refinement of America : persons, houses, cities / Richard L. Bushman

Author:
Bushman, Richard L  Search this
Physical description:
xix, 504 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
United States
Date:
1992
To 1775
1775-1783
Topic:
Middle class--History  Search this
Architecture, Domestic--History  Search this
House furnishings--History  Search this
Material culture  Search this
Social life and customs  Search this
Call number:
E162.B986 1992X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_434832
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The making of middlebrow culture / by Joan Shelley Rubin

Author:
Rubin, Joan Shelley 1947-  Search this
Physical description:
xx, 416 p., 10 p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
United States
Date:
1991
20th century
Topic:
Books and reading--History  Search this
Literature--Appreciation--History  Search this
Art appreciation--History  Search this
Middle class--History  Search this
Self-culture--History  Search this
Popular culture--History  Search this
Call number:
Z1003.2.R83 1991X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_417872
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France at the Crystal Palace : bourgeois taste and artisan manufacture in the nineteenth century / Whitney Walton

Author:
Walton, Whitney  Search this
Physical description:
xii, 240 p., [18] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
France
Date:
1992
19th century
Topic:
Consumption (Economics)--History  Search this
Middle class--History  Search this
Industrial policy--History  Search this
Manufactures  Search this
History  Search this
Call number:
HC280.C6W35 1992X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_431404
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Documenting the public and private in Life : cultural politics in postwar photojournalism / by Wendy Kozol

Author:
Kozol, Wendy  Search this
Physical description:
iv, 259 leaves
Type:
Books
Place:
United States
Date:
1990
20th century
1945-1970
Topic:
Photojournalism--History  Search this
Photography of families  Search this
Middle class--History  Search this
Families--History  Search this
Popular culture--History  Search this
Social life and customs  Search this
Call number:
E813 .K88 1990a
Data Source:
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_439464
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Mistresses of the transient hearth : American Army officers' wives and material culture, 1840-1880 / Robin Dell Campbell

Author:
Campbell, Robin Dell 1953-  Search this
Subject:
United States Army Military life  Search this
Physical description:
xxv, 179 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
United States
Date:
2005
19th century
Topic:
Officers' spouses--History  Search this
Army spouses--History  Search this
Wives--History  Search this
Material culture--History  Search this
Sociology, Military--History  Search this
Middle class--History  Search this
Data Source:
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_812772
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The clerk's tale : young men and moral life in nineteenth-century America / Thomas Augst

Author:
Augst, Thomas  Search this
Physical description:
xi, 321 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
United States
Date:
2003
C2003
19th century
Topic:
Young men--Social conditions  Search this
Young men--Social life and customs  Search this
Young men--Intellectual life--History  Search this
Self-culture--History  Search this
Literacy--Social aspects--History  Search this
Middle class--History  Search this
Social conditions  Search this
Data Source:
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_816520
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Inside the Victorian home : a portrait of domestic life in Victorian England / Judith Flanders

Author:
Flanders, Judith  Search this
Physical description:
xxviii, 499 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
England
Date:
2004
2003
19th century
Topic:
Families--History  Search this
Home economics--History  Search this
Middle class--History  Search this
Social life and customs  Search this
Social conditions  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_826179
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Luxury and pleasure in eighteenth-century Britain / Maxine Berg

Title:
Luxury & pleasure in eighteenth-century Britain
Author:
Berg, Maxine 1950-  Search this
Physical description:
xvii, 373 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Great Britain
Date:
2005
18th century
Topic:
Consumption (Economics)--History  Search this
Consumer goods--History  Search this
Luxury goods industry--History  Search this
Affluent consumers--History  Search this
Middle class--History  Search this
Social conditions  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_793768

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