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Cradle of the Middle Class. The Family in Oneida County, New York, 1790-1865

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1982

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Preface Introduction: locating domesticity 1. Family, community, and the frontier generation, 1790-1820 2. Family in transition: the revival cycle, 1813-1838 3. The era of association: between family and society, 1825-1845 4. Privacy and the making of the self-made man: family strategies of the middle class at midcentury 5. A sphere is not a home: woman's larger place in the city at midcentury Conclusion Appendices Notes Sources and select bibliography Index.