Buy this book on-line Calhoun, Arthur W : A Social History of the American Family from Colonial Times to the Present. Vol. I: Colonial PeriodThe Arthur H. Clark Company, Cleveland, OH, 1917
Volume I only. Two more volumes were published in 1918 and 1919, respectively. Original publisher's red cloth binding with gilt lettering on the spine. Top edge gilt. 6 1/2" x 9 3/4." 348 pages, complete. Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Minimal age and edge wear to the covers. Excerpt from the Preface: "The three volumes of which this is the first are an attempt to develop an understanding of the forces that have been operative in the evolution of family institutions in the United States. They set forth the nature of the influences that have shaped marriage, controlled fecundity, determined the respective status of father, mother, child, attached relative, and servant, influenced sexual morality, and governed the function of the family as an educational, economic, moral, and spiritual institution as also its relation to state, industry, and society in general in a matter of social control. The work is primarily a contribution to genetic sociology. ... The first volume of the series covers the colonial period and sets forth the germination of the American family as a product of European folkways, of the economic transition to modern capitalism, and of the distinctive environment of a virgin continent. Usages imported from Europe are detailed and their gradual modification or overthrow under the influence of economic progress and the sway of the wilderness is exhibited. Variations between the geographical sections are traced to mesological and population differences but the general similarity of North and South is affirmed as a preliminary to the study of their divergence in the national period. In general, the colonial family is presented as a property institution dominated by middle class standards, and operating as an agency of social control in the midst of a social order governed by the interests of a forceful aristocracy which shaped religion, education, politics, and all else to its own profit. The characteristics of the family in the English colonies receive accentuation from a brief view of the French settlements by the Gulf.". Book. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Calhoun, Arthur W : A Social History of the American Family from Colonial Times to the Present. Vol. I: Colonial Period. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including livres rares, collectables, rare books, first editions and atlases. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |