In the name of the home : the politics of gender, race, and reconstruction in nineteenth-century America
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- In the Name of the Home is a history of the central concept of the nineteenth-century United States: the American home. It explores how the home lay at the center of efforts to first connect and then reconstruct the expanding nation according to a single vision of American citizenship. The home served as a moral blueprint for the reconstruction efforts of government officials, politicians, social reformers, and cultural purveyors attempting to integrate both the defeated South and the still largely unincorporated West. However, when applied to the nation's "problem" groups—freedpeople, Native peoples, Chinese immigrants, and Mormons—the home failed to create the inclusive, homogenous society that they had imagined. Instead, by the end of the century, the home had been wielded to exclude, terrorize, and enforce assimilation. By connecting the experiences of southern and western minority groups together through home politics and policies, this project reveals how ultimately the home became an illiberal form of coercion in a new liberal order.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2018; ©2018 |
| Publication date | 2018; 2018 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Martin, Nicole N |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Freedman, Estelle B, 1947- |
| Thesis advisor | Freedman, Estelle B, 1947- |
| Thesis advisor | White, Richard, 1947- |
| Thesis advisor | Winterer, Caroline, 1966- |
| Degree committee member | White, Richard, 1947- |
| Degree committee member | Winterer, Caroline, 1966- |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of History. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Nicole N. Martin. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of History. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2018. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2018 by Nicole Noelle Martin
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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