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Hanson, Susan Atherton. "Home Sweet Home: Industrialization's Impact on Rural Households, 1865-1925," University of Maryland, College Park, December 1986.
“Home Sweet Home” studies changing rural consumer behavior patterns in the Upper South between 1865 and 1925, by utilizing nontraditional sources (mainly historical photographs and general store account books) to analyze the acquisition and use of manufactured items in routine domestic chores. The arrival of cookstoves, kerosene lamps, and mail order catalogues, declining hog production and the federal government influenced most changes in rural domestic life. Together, these influences caused that process of change in the Upper South to be slow moving, uneven, and inconspicuous to both contemporary society and later scholars.
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