The Boardinghouse in Nineteenth-Century America

by Wendy Gamber

In nineteenth-century America, the bourgeois home epitomized family, morality, and virtue. But this era also witnessed massive urban growth and the acceptance of the market as the overarching model for economic relations. A rapidly changing environment bred the antithesis of home: the urban boardinghouse. In this groundbreaking study, Wendy Gamber explores the experiences of the numerous people--old and young, married and single, rich and poor--who...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080188571X
• ISBN13: 9780801885716
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.1"