03179oam 2200685 a 450 991080975170332120240506021748.0979-84-00-64982-01-282-40600-097866124060030-313-02465-010.5040/9798400649820(CKB)2550000000000173(EBL)491547(OCoLC)62876978(SSID)ssj0000359980(PQKBManifestationID)11275460(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000359980(PQKBWorkID)10317293(PQKB)10071530(Au-PeEL)EBL491547(CaPaEBR)ebr10349929(CaONFJC)MIL240600(MiAaPQ)EBC491547(DLC)BP9798400649820BC(EXLCZ)99255000000000017320240214e20052024 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrFamily life in 17th- and 18th-century America /James M. Volo and Dorothy Denneen Volo1st ed.Westport, Conn. :Greenwood Press,2006.London :Bloomsbury Publishing (UK),20241 online resource (340 p.)Family life through historyDescription based upon print version of record.0-313-33199-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.The role of family -- Folkways -- Family structure -- The role of father -- Patriarch -- Wise and seasonable counsels -- Educator -- Provider -- Protector -- Estate builder -- The role of mother -- Women as wives -- Women as mothers -- Women as housewives -- The role of children -- Children as family -- Children as learners -- Children as workers -- The role of servants and slaves -- Servants -- Race-based slavery.Colonial America comes alive in this depiction of the daily lives of families-mothers, fathers, children, and grandparents. The Volo's examine the role of the family in society and typical family life in 17th- and 18th-century America. Through narrative chapters, aspects of family life are discussed in depth such as maintaining the household, work, entertainment, death and dying, ceremonies and holidays, customs and rites of passage, parenting, education, and widowhood. Readers will gain an in-depth understanding of the world in which these families lived and how that world affected their liveFamily life through history.Family life in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century AmericaFamilyUnited StatesHistory17th centuryFamilyUnited StatesHistory18th centuryNorth AmericaHistoryColonial period, ca. 1600-1775FamilyHistoryFamilyHistory306.850973/09032Volo James M.1947-1616996Volo Dorothy Denneen1949-1616997DLCDLCDLCBOOK9910809751703321Family life in 17th- and 18th-century America3948005UNINA