Introduction --The Progressive Agriculturist's Vernacular -- The Shape of Cooperation: The Farmstead as Workplace, 1830-1855 --The Spheres Diverge: Work on the Progressive Farmstead, 1855-1885 -- City Parlor, Country Sitting Room -- Supervision to Self-Culture: Children's Spaces on the Progressive Farmstead -- From Production to Consumption: Progressive Farmhouse Design at the Turn of the Century
Summary
A look at the changing design of 19th-century American farmhouses, collected from a wide range of agricultural periodicals of the time
Notes
Based on the author's thesis--Cornell University
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-250) and index
