Ordinary People and Everyday Life: Perspectives on the New Social History

viii, 215, [1] pp. 8vo. "... ten prominent scholars in American history and material culture offer their perspectives on what the new social history is all about and where it seems to be going. Their essays on the urban experience, families, agriculture and rural life, women, race and ethnicity, workers and work, politics, the rise of social history, and learning from artifacts convey a dynamic new vitality and sense of excitement in the field of history as we move toward the twenty-first century."