After the Revolution : the Smithsonian history of everyday life in the eighteenth century / Barbara Clark Smith.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : [Washington, D.C.] : Pantheon Books ; National Museum of American History, c1985Edition: 1st edDescription: xxvi, 214 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cmISBN: 0394543815; 9780394543819Subject(s): National Museum of American History (U.S.) | Social history -- 18th century | United States -- Social life and customs -- 1775-1783 | United States -- Social life and customs -- 1783-1865Additional physical formats: Online version:: After the Revolution.LOC classification: E163 | .S63 1985Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Martha's Vineyard High School Library | 973/SMI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 39844100078811 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-208) and index.
The War at Home: Samuel Colton, Merchant of Longmeadow, Massachusetts -- The Farm and the Marketplace: The Springer Household of Mill Creek, Delaware -- The Ambitions of a Tidewater Planter: Henry Saunders of Isle of Wight County, Virginia -- The Limits of Liberty: Richard Allen, Freedman of Philadelphia.
Recreates the first days of our nationhood through the lives of a Massachusetts merchant, a Delaware yeoman farmer, etc.
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