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Author Hornstein, Jeffrey M., 1967- author.

Title A nation of realtors : a cultural history of the twentieth-century American middle class / Jeffrey M. Hornstein
Published Durham : Duke University Press, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 252 pages) : illustrations
Series Radical perspectives
Radical perspectives.
e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Contents "Doing something definite": the emergence of real estate brokerage as a career, 1883-1908 -- Real estate brokerage and the formation of a (national) middle-class consciousness, 1907-1915 -- Character, competency, and real (estate) professionalism, 1915-1921 -- Applied realology: administration, education, and the consequences of partial professionalization in the 1920s -- The realtors go to Washington: enshrining homeownership in the 1930s -- "Rosie the realtor" and the re-gendering of real estate brokerage, 1938-1950 -- Domesticity, gender, and real estate in the 1950s and beyond
Summary A history of the real estate profession that rethinks the impact of gender and class tensions in twentieth-century America
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-245) and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject Real estate business -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Middle class -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Women real estate agents -- United States -- History -- 20th century
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General.
Middle class
Real estate business
Women real estate agents
Mittelstand
United States
USA
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822386605
0822386607
1283021862
9781283021869
9786613021861
6613021865