Past, Present, and Personal: The Family and the Life Course in American History

by John Putnam Demos

Book Overview

With this book, John Demos, the author of A Little Commonwealth--a landmark study of Pilgrim family life--and the award-winning Entertaining Satan, makes a major contribution to the rapidly growing literature on "family history." Covering the entire span of American history, he discusses topics such as the changing nature of fatherhood, the experience of middle age in colonial times and in the present, and the historian's role in discussions of present-day...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195047664
• ISBN13: 9780195047660
• Release Date: March 1988
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.0"