The books therefore go inside homes, workplaces, schools, churches, meeting halls, stores, and other gathering places to find people on their own terms. The books treat the external factors shaping people’s lives-war, migration, disease, drought, flood, pest infestations, fires, earthquakes, hurricanes, and tornados, and other natural and man-made disasters that disrupted and even shattered daily lives-but they understand that the everyday concerns and routines of life also powerfully define any people. The books show that the seemingly mundane-such as the ways any people hunt, gather, or grow food and then prepare and eat it-as much as the more profound reflections on life reveal how and why people ordered their world and The books emphasize the habits, rhythms, and dynamics of daily life, from work to family matters, to religious practices, to socializing, to civic engagement, and more.
Indian peoples and European colonists, blacks and whites, immigrants and the native-born, farmers and shopkeepers, factory owners and factory hands, movers and shakers, and those moved and shaken-all get their due.
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The books in the series assume the perspective and use the approaches of the new social history by looking at people “from the bottom up” as well as the top-down. They do so, and will do so, by tracking closely the contours, character, and content of people’s daily lives, always with an eye to the sources of people’s interests, identities, and institutions. Collectively, the books promise the fullest description and analysis of “American” daily life in print. This series focuses on the United States from the colonial period through the present day, with each book in the series devoted to a particular time period, place, or people. They fit its basic framework and follow its format. Series Foreword The books in the Daily Life in the United States series form a subset of Greenwood Press’s acclaimed, ongoing Daily Life Through History series. And to the memory of Spike, a “rescue dog” who rescued me during a difficult time in my life. To the family I obtained during the course of writing this book: Margaret, Charlie, and Kenny. Box 1911 Santa Barbara, California 93116-1911 This book is printed on acid-free paper Manufactured in the United States of America Greenwood An Imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC ABC-CLIO, LLC 130 Cremona Drive, P.O. This book is also available on the World Wide Web as an eBook. (The Greenwood Press daily life through history series : daily life in the United States) Includes bibliographical references and index. Daily life in the colonial city / Keith Krawczynski. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Krawczynski, Keith. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, except for the inclusion of brief quotations in a review, without prior permission in writing from the publisher. The Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History Series: Daily Life in the United StatesĬopyright 2013 by Keith Krawczynski All rights reserved. Anderson The Aztecs, Second Edition Davı´d Carrasco and Scott Sessions Forgeng The New Americans: Immigration since 1965 Christoph Strobel The New Inuit Pamela R. Volo Elizabethan England, Second Edition Jeffrey L. Schulz Civil War in America, Second Edition Dorothy Denneen Volo and James M.
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