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Families and Communities - A New View of American HistoryEntry/Object ID
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Families and Communities- A New View of American History. Historically, the author argues, Americans should be viewed from a variety of equally important perspectives, based on the ways they organized themselves: in families, rural households, towns, cities, states, regions- and the nation. The concept of the small town as the most important community Americans have lived in, until our own century, is becoming a focal point of serious historical investigation; the best work now being done in local history implies but does not spell out a whole new scheme for American history, one in which the town, not the nation, is the main focus of attention until our society became "nationalized". The author suggests that until our society became so predominantly urbanized, general histories spotlighted the nation, the largest of our many communities, rather than the small town, placing emphasis on political and territorial aspects.Lexicon
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