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Williams, Susan, 1948-

Alice Morse Earle and the domestic history of early America [electronic resource] / Susan Reynolds Williams. - Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2013] - 1 online resource (xvi, 315 pages :) illustrations ; - Public history in historical perspective .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-299) and index.

Introduction : hunting for Alice Morse Earle -- Family matters -- Parlor culture, public culture -- New England kismet -- The China hunter -- Writing the past -- Home life and history -- Remembering the garden -- Genealogy and the quest for an inherited future -- Toward new public history -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chronological bibliography of Alice Morse Earle's works.

ISBN: 9781613762264 1613762267

Subjects--Personal Names:
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Home economics--Historiography.--United States
Material culture--Historiography.--United States
Women historians--United States--Biography.
Historians--United States--Biography.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
New England--Social life and customs--Historiography.--To 1775
United States--Social life and customs--Historiography.--To 1775

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: E175.5.E14 / W55 2013

Dewey Class. No.: 974/.0207202 B