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Home Life in Colonial Days Kindle Edition

by Alice Morse Earle (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars 137 ratings
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    205 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Sticky notes
    On Kindle Scribe
  4. Publication date
    March 17, 2011
  5. File size
    745 KB
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B004SQU5CU
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ (March 17, 2011)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 17, 2011
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 745 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 205 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1511862777
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars 137 ratings

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4.1 out of 5 stars
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Enthused Gardener
5.0 out of 5 stars A superb historical resource
Reviewed in the United States on October 29, 2014
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An invaluable resource. There is so much information here that you have to read it slowly and in small chunks. If you are interested in American domestic history, re-enactment, the American Revolution, homesteading, or the Little House books... read this. It is wonderful.

This particular edition does have formatting issues, especially regarding the figures interspersed through the text, but it is still perfectly readable.
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Keith Doms
4.0 out of 5 stars A 19th centery view on the 18th century.
Reviewed in the United States on November 28, 2012
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A. M. Earls's Home Life in Colonial Days is a very interesting view of history as they were written in the the late 19th century. It is apparent that Earls did much research, visited many locations, and quotes from many sources and poems to support her observations, but as a product of the time,she did not use citations or footnotes. The edition I purchased of A. M. Earls' Home Life in in Colonial days is disappointing in that it is lacking the figures and plates which were originally included. Most of Earls' discussions center on New England then some on Pennsylvania and a little on Virgina. I found the the writing style easy to read with a noticable but not overbaring Victorian romantic style. There is no chonological or regional organization. The chapters are arranged by broad topics such as Food from the Land, Jack Knife Industries, Wool and Weaving, Transportation and Inns. There were incites and descriptions of lifeways and crafts which I have not before encountered. There are many nuggets of interesting informaion contained through out the work. Modern scholars would have a hard time using this work due to its lack of citations, but the Living History participant will be happy to read this book.
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Silber
5.0 out of 5 stars interesting
Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2014
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historical piece that actually reads somewhat like a novel. It is a very informative piece and a great piece to have for a reference piece. the chapters on gardens and sewing are my favorite.
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Ginnie
3.0 out of 5 stars no pictures
Reviewed in the United States on March 13, 2013
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This book was ok. I bought it for my Kindle without thinking too much. Reading a book like this with no pictures was not what I was looking for.
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Amy Proffitt
4.0 out of 5 stars Home Life in Colonial Days
Reviewed in the United States on June 14, 2013
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I found the book very helpful in unit studies dealing with of course, american history. The book is very descriptive from how the homes were first built to how the tables were set. It was wonderful to read little exerts from each chapter, and just peruse through all the information. I would have given it 5 stars, but I like to see illustrations and there are non in this book.
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Mary Welter
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book
Reviewed in the United States on July 24, 2013
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Anyone doing genealogy will enjoy this book. Very good descriptions of life in colonial days and how daily things were done, how first homes were built, how food was cooked, why some items were valuable. I would recommend it to anyone wanting to know about the simple things in the life of a colonial immigrant.
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Jessica Carcich
2.0 out of 5 stars Beware: no index, no illustrations
Reviewed in the United States on June 29, 2015
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Having borrowed this book from our historical library, I thought to have a copy to keep at my home. This is NOT it. There is no index, and there are no illustrations! That is very disappointing, having spent so much for it. How hard would it have been to copy the index and the illustrations?....as I said, very disappointing.
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Paula Jarrett
5.0 out of 5 stars Details, Details, Details
Reviewed in the United States on August 2, 2020
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This book provides, as you might have guessed, a very detailed description of everyday life in Colonial America.
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linda brunet
3.0 out of 5 stars not what i thought.
Reviewed in Canada on August 3, 2013
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I thought this would be a kind of biography or something but it's not. It's very instructional. It is also american and I thought it was canadian.. my mistake about the whole book.
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