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Quakers and the American Family Barry Levy (Assistant Professor of History, Assistant Professor of History, University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

Quakers and the American Family By Barry Levy (Assistant Professor of History, Assistant Professor of History, University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

Summary

Through an analysis of the Quaker lifestyle, this study investigates the origins and fortunes of the domestic family. The author emphasizes the fact that the child-rearing practices demanded by domesticity have a heavy economic cost.

Quakers and the American Family Summary

Quakers and the American Family: British Settlement in the Delaware Valley by Barry Levy (Assistant Professor of History, Assistant Professor of History, University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

Examining the transplantation of English Quakers to North America from the mid-seventeenth to mid-eighteenth centuries, Barry Levy looks particularly at the origins and fortunes of the domestic family.

Quakers and the American Family Reviews

`...We have here an impressive history of the effect of poverty and wealth on migrants to America who happened to be Quakers and a study featuring one of the practices, domesticity. A wonderfully provocative history, it raises as many questions as it answers. Although it reaches beyond its grasp, the fact that it attempts to grasp makes it necessary reading for any historian of Quakerism, the family, and women in Anglo-American culture`. William and Mary Quarterly.

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NLS9780195049763
9780195049763
0195049764
Quakers and the American Family: British Settlement in the Delaware Valley by Barry Levy (Assistant Professor of History, Assistant Professor of History, University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
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Paperback
Oxford University Press
1992-07-23
352
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