This charming book portrays domestic life in New England during the century between the American Revolution and the Civil War. Drawing on diaries; letters; wills; newspapers; and other sources; Jane C. Nylander provides intimate details about preparing dinner; spinning and weaving textiles; washing and ironing laundry; planning a social outing; and exchanging food and services. Probing behind the many myths that have grown up about this era; Nylander reveals the complex reality of everyday life in old New England.
#1073999 in Books 1961-09-10Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 8.00 x 1.40 x 5.15l; 1.40 #File Name: 0300002475520 pages
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful. Vernadsky has become more popular since USSR fellBy W. HawkinsContrary to what the previous reviewer has heard; George Vernadsky was criticized during the Soviet era by the Moscow regime because he was not a Marxist but a traditional historian. His learnings were with the White forces in teh Russian Civil War and he fled Russia when the Reds won. He has become popular since the USSR collapsed because he is a "Euroasianist" who sees Russia as a multinational empire throughout history that was trying to operate (and should) as a nation. He was never opposed to Russian greatness; just to the Soviet dictatorship which had driven him from his beloved homeland; which was the Ukraine within a Greater "Eurasian" Russia stretching across to the Pacific. This grand view is popular with President Putin and other "nationalists" who want post-Soviet Russia to still be a major world power as Tsarist Russia was before the Communist Revolution.
