American Family From Obligation to Freedom

Name: American Family From Obligation to Freedom
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ISBN: 9780230337459

ISBN-10: 0230337457

ISBN-13: 9780230337459

Edition: 2011

Authors: David Peterson del Mar

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This book traces the movement from mutualism to individualism in the context of American family life. Throughout American history, families survived or even flourished during colonization, the Revolution, slavery, the industrial revolution, immigration, and economic upheaval because reliance on others was patently necessary. But in the past century, unprecedented prosperity both freed Americans from mutual dependence and created a culture devoted to the pursuit of pleasure and individual fulfilment. This shift from obligation to freedom has turned the maintenance of durable, rewarding families into a countercultural act, one that requires a conscious decision to qualify the American…

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List price: $54.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date: 11/30/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 211
Size: 6.04" wide x 9.34" long x 0.47" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Societies of Obligation



The Search for Order in North America



Revolution and Continuity



Containing the Bourgeois Family



Necessity and Tradition



The First Modern Family



The Family in Crisis and After



Freedom's Florescence



Countercultures?


Conclusion


Notes


Additional Reading


Index