From Congregation Town to Industrial City
Culture and Social Change in a Southern Community
In 1835, Winston and Salem was a well-ordered, bucolic, and attractive North Carolina town. A visitor could walk up Main Street from the village square and get a sense of the quiet Moravian community that had settled there. Yet, over the next half-century, this idyllic village was to experience dramatic changes. While calling forth images of great factories, mills, and machinery, the industrial revolution involved far more than mere changes in modes of production. The essence of industrialization was nothing less than the full-scale societal transformation of economic, social, and political institutions, as well as the emergence of a new mind…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8147-7977-4
- EAN: 9780814779774
- Produktnummer: 1547170
- Verlag: New York University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1994
- Seitenangabe: 338 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.3 cm x D0.0 cm
- Sonstiges: Undergraduate
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Michael Shirley is Senior Program Officer at the National Endowment for the Humanities in Washington, DC.
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