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A nation of realtors : a cultural history of the twentieth-century American middle class
- Title
- A nation of realtors : a cultural history of the twentieth-century American middle class / Jeffrey M. Hornstein.
- Author
- Hornstein, Jeffrey M., 1967-
- Publication
- Durham : Duke University Press, c2005.
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- Description
- xi, 252 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Radical perspectives
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-245) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JBE 05-875
- ISBN
- 082233528X (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0822335409 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2004023265
- OCLC
- 56617233
- Author
- Hornstein, Jeffrey M., 1967-
- Title
- A nation of realtors : a cultural history of the twentieth-century American middle class / Jeffrey M. Hornstein.
- Imprint
- Durham : Duke University Press, c2005.
- Series
- Radical perspectives
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-245) and index.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- JBE 05-875