Middletown : a study in contemporary American culture / by Robert S. Lynd and Helen Merrell Lynd; foreword by Clark Wissler.
A classic, influential study of the average American town. "Here is the heart of America. In this famous study of day-by-day 'living' in a representative small American city, you may find a complete picture of our culture. Making a Home, Getting a Living, Training the Young, Spending Leisure, Carryi...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Harcourt, Brace and Company,
[1929], [©1929]
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| Ownership and Custodial History: |
Copy 8: Previous owner's inscription on front fly-leaf: Hugh Gregg, 1441 Pierson. |
| Local Note: |
MSU copy 8: A later printing, not before 1937, as the rear dust jacket flaps contains an ad for Middletown in Transition. |
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Copy 8: Publisher's original cloth; in dust jacket. |
| Physical Description: | x pages, 2 leaves, 3-550 pages including tables. ; 23 cm |
| Format: | Book |
| Summary: |
A classic, influential study of the average American town. "Here is the heart of America. In this famous study of day-by-day 'living' in a representative small American city, you may find a complete picture of our culture. Making a Home, Getting a Living, Training the Young, Spending Leisure, Carrying on Government, Religion--all these divisions of our complex round of life are examined in detail."--Dust jacket. |
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| Note: | First edition. Issued also as thesis (PH. D.)--Columbia University. "The city will be called Middletown ... [and] is in the east-north-central group of states that includes Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin."--pages 7-8. Middletown was in fact Muncie, Indiana. "The Institute of social and religious research ... financed the investigation."--Pref. |
| Call Number: | HN57 .L8 |