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The Countryside in the Age of Capitalist Transformation: Essays in the Social History of Rural America
. Ed(S): Hahn, S.; Prude, Jonathan
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paperback. Countryside in the Age of Capitalist Transformation: Essays in the Social History of Rural America Editor(s): Hahn, S.; Prude, Jonathan. Num Pages: 366 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTB; JHBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 27. Weight in Grams: 590.
This volume represents one of the first efforts to harvest the rapidly emerging scholarship in the field of American rural history. Building on the insights and methodologies that social historians have directed toward urban life, the contributors explore the past as it unfolded in the rural settings in which most Americans have lived during most of American history. The essays cover a broad range of topics: the character and consequences of manufacturing and consumerism in the antebellum countryside of the Northeast; the transition from slavery to freedom in Southern plantation and nonplantation regions; the dynamics of community-building and inheritance among ... Read more
This volume represents one of the first efforts to harvest the rapidly emerging scholarship in the field of American rural history. Building on the insights and methodologies that social historians have directed toward urban life, the contributors explore the past as it unfolded in the rural settings in which most Americans have lived during most of American history. The essays cover a broad range of topics: the character and consequences of manufacturing and consumerism in the antebellum countryside of the Northeast; the transition from slavery to freedom in Southern plantation and nonplantation regions; the dynamics of community-building and inheritance among ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1985
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press United States
Number of pages
366
Condition
New
Number of Pages
366
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9780807841396
SKU
V9780807841396
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About . Ed(S): Hahn, S.; Prude, Jonathan
Steve Hahn is associate professor of history at the University of California, San Diego.|Jonathan Prude is associate professor of history at Emory University.
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