Home Economics in the US (1870-1930)
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Little House in the Big Woods (1953) - Laura Ingalls Wilder
Garth Williams (American, 1912-1996), “A Trip to the Store”, in Little House in the Big Woods (Laura Ingalls Wilder), 1953. A moral management of household money The mercantile, a place ...
Moral Accounting in the Victorian Period (1830-1880)
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Art of Virtue – Benjamin Franklin
A famous example of a moral accounting grid stems from Benjamin Franklin’s Art of Virtue. Franklin’s Art of Virtue relied on a tracking device that registers moral progress in terms of self-control ...
Moral Accounting in Geneva (1800-1845)
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Moral diary of 1819
For the years 1819 and 1820, François-Marc-Louis Naville (1784-1846), a pastor and schoolteacher from Geneva, conceived two major moral diaries. After more than ten years of experimentation, he discovered the Mémorial horaire by ...