Families and farmhouses in nineteenth-century America
Subtitle: vernacular design and social change
By: Sally McMurry.
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Knoxville
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 261
Subjects: Farmhouses -- United States; Vernacular architecture -- United States; Architecture -- United States -- 19th century; Architecture and society -- United States
Other titles: Families & farmhouses in nineteenth-century America
Description: An era of great agricultural expansion in America, the nineteenth century witnessed the development of capitalist method, technological innovation, scientific experimentation, and the reorganization of social and family life - changes that were reflected in, and even accelerated by, striking transformations in the vernacular landscape. In this fascinating interdisciplinary study, Sally McMurry examines one arena of domestic change - the design of northern rural farmhouses - as an index of America's shift from an agrarian society to an urban, industrial nation. A unique work that will interest a wide range of readers, Families and Farmhouses in Nineteenth-Century America shows how progressive farm families adapted to industrialization, urbanization, the consolidation of capitalist agriculture, and the rise of a new consumer society. For this paperback edition, McMurry has written a new introduction that summarizes the scholarship done in the field since the book's initial publication in 1988. - Publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-250) and index.
Originally published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1988.