Social change in America : from the Revolution through the Civil War / Christopher Clark.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clark, Christopher, 1953-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social change.

History.

United States--Social conditions--To 1865.

United States.

Social conditions.

Social change--United States--History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 349 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, 2006.

Summary:

An interpretive history of the processes of social change in the early years of the new republic. It concentrates on the nation's expansion, which saw the rapid growth of rural societies based on family labor, slavery, and wage labor, but also an intensification of economic activity that fostered the growth of commerce, towns, and manufacturing; applied new technologies to transport and communications; and initiated mass immigration from overseas. The character of the social relationships between groups and individuals that were shaped by, and helped shape, these events is the subject of Mr. Clark's book.

Contents:

Households and regions at the end of the Colonial Period

Change and continuity in the American Revolution

Social change in the early Republic

Two directions for labor

Crisis and expansion

From regional differences to sectional divide

The Civil War : two kinds of revolution.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-340) and index.

ISBN:

1566636868

OCLC:

62615816

Publisher Number:

9781566636865