American Family Home, 1800-1960

In the nineteenth century, architects and family reformers launched promotional campaigns portraying houses no longer as simply physical structures in which families lived but as emblems for family cohesiveness and identity. Clark explains why, despite the fear of standardization and homogenization, the middle class has persisted in viewing the single-family home as the main symbol of independence as as the distinguishing sign of having achieved middle-class status.

Author: Clifford Edward Clark
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 09/12/1986
Pages: 297
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.62lbs
Size: 9.95h x 7.97w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780807841518

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 10/15/1986

About the Author
Clifford Edward Clark Jr., is M. A. and A. D. Hulings Professor of American Studies and professor of history at Carleton College. He is author of Henry Ward Beecher: Spokesman for a Middle-Class America.