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Author
Publisher
Random House
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Redefines the tumultuous 1960s, a decade that saw the rise of the rebellious children of the greatest generation, to reveal how American social, political, economic, and cultural institutions were transformed by an era of dramatic change.
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
xxi, 330 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
""The queen of living history" (Lucy Worsley) returns with an immersive account of how English women sparked a worldwide revolution-from their own kitchens. No single invention epitomizes the Victorian era more than the black cast-iron range. Aware that the twenty-first-century has reduced it to a quaint relic, Ruth Goodman was determined to prove that the hot coal stove provided so much more than morning tea : it might even have kick-started the...