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Living Downtown
Living Downtown: The History of Residential Hotels in the United States© 1994 Paul Groth399 pages Although today hotels are thought of as places for travelers, at its most basic level a hotel is simply a rented room; an apartment without … Continue reading
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Tagged business, cities, goods/services, history, home, social history
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Daily Life in Early America
Daily Life in Early America193 pages© 1988 David Freeman Hawke Daily Life in Early America examines up-close the new world European colonists were discovering and recreating for themselves. A social history, focused on daily life, the author begins first … Continue reading
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Tagged Colonial America, history, home, manners and morals, social history
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More Work for Mother
More Work for Mother: the Ironies of American Housework © 1985 Ruth Cowan 288 pages Throughout the 20thcentury, households were transformed by a new abundance of labor-saving devices, from washing machines to toaster ovens, and processed … Continue reading
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Tagged America, goods/services, history, home, social history, technology, Technology and Society, women, women's studies
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Look Homeward, America!
Look Homeward, America: In Search of Reactionary Radicals and Front-Porch Anarchists© 2006 Bill Kauffman250 pages “The Little Way. That is what we seek. That — contrary to the ethic of personal parking spaces, of the dollar-sign god — is the … Continue reading
Posted in Politics and Civic Interest, Reviews
Tagged anarchism, Bill Kauffman, biography, Catholicism, Classics and Literary, conservative, Distributism, Front Porch Reading, home, libertarianism, literature, localism, organic, politics, Politics-CivicInterest, social history, subsidiarity
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What’s Wrong with the World
What’s Wrong with the World© 1910 G. K. Chesterton200 pages What’s wrong with the world? Too many people are proposing answers to the wrong questions. What’s Wrong is a curious collection of thoughts, voiced at the turn of the 20thcentury, … Continue reading
The Gift of Good Land
The Gift of Good Land© 1981 Wendell Berry281 pages Wendell Berry is a philosopher, poet, and more, but before all else he is a farmer. He is a faithful son of Kentucky devoted to the land, to the stewardship of … Continue reading
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Tagged agrarianism, community, ecology, environmentalism, home, manners and morals, stewardship, sustainability, Wendell Berry
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