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Article: Jacob's Well: A Case for Rethinking Family History.(Book review)
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- Journal of Social History
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- June 22, 2009
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Jacob's Well: A Case for Rethinking Family History. By Joseph A. Amato (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2008. xvi plus 279 pp.).
Professional historians have tended to leave the field of family history to genealogists and amateur family historians, and so it was with considerable curiosity that I opened Joseph Amato's most recent book. This was particularly so, given his penchant for tackling offbeat subjects with a freshness and ingenuity that gives them special significance, as he did in Dust: A History of the Small and Invisible (2002) and On Foot: A History of Walking (2004). In his pioneering book on the potentials of local and regional ...
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