num_pages: 352
description: Based on a wide reading of letters, diaries and other contemporary documents, Mintz, an historian, and Kellogg, an anthropologist, examine the changing definition of “family” in the United States over the course of the last three centuries, beginning with the modified European model of the earliest settlers. From there they survey the changes in the families of whites (working class, immigrants, and middle class) and blacks (slave and free) since the Colonial years, and identify four deep changes in family structure and the democratic family, the companionate family, the family of the 1950s, and lastly, the family of the '80s, vulnerable to societal changes but still holding together.
language: English
title: Domestic Revolutions: A Social History Of American Family Life
titlecomplete: Domestic Revolutions: A Social History Of American Family Life
genres: Sociology, History, Anthropology, Education, American History, Social Science, Nonfiction, Family
ratings_count: 123
publisher: The Free Press