The Age of the Bachelor: Creating an American Subculture

by Howard P. Chudacoff

Book Overview

In this engaging new book, Howard Chudacoff describes a special and fascinating world: the urban bachelor life that took shape in the late nineteenth century, when a significant population of single men migrated to American cities. Rejecting the restraints and dependence of the nineteenth-century family, bachelors found sustenance and camaraderie in the boarding houses, saloons, pool halls, cafes, clubs, and other institutions that arose in response...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691070555
• ISBN13: 9780691070551
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.2"