"Placing the era firmly within the American experience, this reference illuminates what daily life was really like in the 1950s, including for people from the "Other America"--those outside the prosperous, white middle class."--Provided by publisher.

Lively and reader-friendly, this second edition of Daily Life in Renaissance Italy provides a colorful and accurate sense of how it felt to inhabit the Renaissance Italian world (1400-1600). In clearly written chapters, the book moves from Renaissance Italy's geography to its society, and then to family. It also looks at hierarchies, moralities, devices for keeping social order, media and communications and the arts, space, time, the life cycle, material...

"Not just about the rise of the factories or the emergence of the modern city, this fascinating history conveys how it felt to work the assembly line and walk the bustling urban streets. Provides an overview of the dramatic economic changes occurring in the United States during industrialization, especially in the textile, meatpacking, steel, and railroad industries; Describes a political culture marked by high participation rates in the North, active...

"Daily Life in Anglo-Saxon England examines and recreates many of the details of ordinary lives in early medieval England between the fifth and eleventh centuries, exploring what we know as well as the surprising gaps in our knowledge"--

"This resource for high school and college students reveals the everyday world of the Middle Ages for women: sex, marriage, power, and work, taken from history and archaeology"--