The Secret History of Domesticity
Subtitle: Public, Private, and the Division of Knowledge (Director's Circle Book)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: December 6, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 904
ISBN-13: 9780801885402
Subjects: Social & cultural anthropology; Social history; Popular Culture - General; History: World; History; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; England; Europe - General; Latin America - General; History / Europe / General; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
First sentence: In 1767 Adam Ferguson, the Scottish Enlightenment man of letters, wrote that "[t]he practitioners of every art and profession may afford matter of general speculation to the man of science; and thinking itself, in this age of separations, may become a peculiar craft."