Main entry:

Hornstein, Jeffrey M., 1967-

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, ©2005.

Description:

xi, 252 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Series:

Radical perspectives

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-245) and index.
"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.

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ISBN:

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

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.
Immobilier États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Classes moyennes États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Agentes immobilières États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Middle class
Real estate business
Women real estate agents
Immobilienvermittlung
Verkäuferin
Mittelstand
United States
USA

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Radical perspectives.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 240884
Call No.: HD255 .H63 2005
Status: Available