SuitabookContinuity and change
The book compares life before 1800 with later transport, machinery and food production while saying that some basic activities remained similar.
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Larry Cuban - Author
Philip Roden - Author
A useful historical overview of everyday life before 1800, connecting ordinary activities with changes in transport, farming and food production.
***Promise of America*** is a high school history program which comprises the following material: Book 1 The Starting Line Book 2 Struggling for the Dream Book 3 Breaking and Building Book 4 Sidewalks, Gunboats, and Ballyhoo Book 5 An Unfinished Story People of the World Japan India* Mexico U.S.S.R.* Kenya* People and the City* *in preparation The Americans: Work and Leisure before 1800 The pictures on these pages show the daily lives of Americans before 1800. Many things have changed: few alligators threaten us; airplanes and trains now carry mail between towns; we use power machinery to raise crops and bake bread. But the basic business of life was the same as today. Early Americans also ate, worked, courted, went to church, went to war, had children, danced, and caroused.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceA useful historical overview of everyday life before 1800, connecting ordinary activities with changes in transport, farming and food production.
The book compares life before 1800 with later transport, machinery and food production while saying that some basic activities remained similar.
Eating, working, courtship, churchgoing, having children, dancing and carousing are presented as parts of early Americans’ lives.
Pay attention to whose experiences are represented by “Americans”, and whether work, worship, family life and war receive equal attention. Consider how the presentation distinguishes broad continuity from important historical differences.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: the current material supports only a cautious reading; another book-specific source is still needed.
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