Plain Folk - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0252009061 ISBN 13 : 9780252009068

Editeur : University of Illinois Press, 1982

Synopsis

Plain Folk depicts both the ordinary occupations and ethnic and racial diversity of America at the turn of the century. Katzman and Tuttle have drawn upon 75 brief autobiographies or "lifelets" of working-class Americans published between 1902 and 1906 in The Independent magazine. Among the seventeen life stories included here are those of a Lithuanian stockyards worker in Chicago, a Polish sweatshop girl and a Chinese merchant in New York City, a black peon in rural Georgia, and a Swedish farmer in Minnesota. Together they provide an unmediated and seldom-seen view of American life during this period.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

David M. Katzman and William M. Tuttle, Jr., are professors of history at the University of Kansas. Katzman is the author of Seven Days a Week: Women and Domestic Service in Industrializing America and Before the Ghetto: Black Detroit in the Nineteenth Century. Tuttle is the author of Race Riot: Chicago in the Red Summer of 1919.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Illinois Press
• Date d'édition: 1982
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0252009061
• ISBN 13: 9780252009068
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Éditeur: Katzman David M, Tuttle William M
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible