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Author:

Hornstein, Jeffrey M., 1967-

Title:

A nation of realtors : a cultural history of the twentieth-century American middle class / Jeffrey M. Hornstein.

Publisher:

Duke University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2005

Description:

xi, 252 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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.

Notes:

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.

Series:

Radical perspectives

ISBN:

9780822335405 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0822335409 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780822335283 (cloth : alk. paper)
082233528X (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)56617233

LCCN:

2004023265

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

GLAX641 -- Marshalltown Community College Library (Marshalltown)

OTAX626 -- Wilcox Library (Oskaloosa)