The Expansion of Everyday Life, 1860-1876 (Everyday Life in America) - Hardcover

Sutherland, Daniel E.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060160233 ISBN 13: 9780060160234

Publisher: Harpercollins, 1989

Synopsis

Describes the day-to-day activities of Americans caught up in the turmoil of the Civil War, warring ideas about slavery, immigration, Western settlement, and technological change

About this title

From the Publisher:

A richly detailed, absorbing portrait of the daily life of Americans before, during, and after the Civil War--the third volume in the Everyday Life in America series.

From the Inside Flap:

During this period, five states joined the Union―Kansas, West Virginia, Nevada, Nebraska and Colorado―and the population reached nearly forty million. The westward movement was given a boost by the cornpletion of the first intercontinental railroad, and migration from farms and villages to towns and cities increased, accompanied by a shift from rural occupations and crafts to industrial tasks and trades. Overall, the pursuit of middle-class status became a driving force. As this book illustrates, however, most people, though affected by the major upheavals of history, simply pursued their personal lives. Sutherland chronicles dating and marriage customs, the dangers and discomforts of mining, and life in the gambling dens, saloons, dance halls, and "cathouses" of the period. Through extensive quotations from diaries, letters, and the popular press, the reader glimpses an American middle class just beginning to grope its way toward the modern world.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harpercollins
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0060160233
• ISBN 13: 9780060160234
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256