| Defending a Way of Life: An American Community in the Nineteenth Century Contributor(s): Cassity, Michael (Author) |
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ISBN: 0887068685 ISBN-13: 9780887068683 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $90.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 1989 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - Urban - Political Science | Labor & Industrial Relations |
| Dewey: 307.760 |
| LCCN: 88-12324 |
| Series: Suny American Labor History |
| Physical Information: (1.18 lbs) 259 pages |
| Themes: - Demographic Orientation - Urban |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book profiles an American community in the nineteenth century to show the larger process by which the nation was transformed from a life close to the frontier to that characteristic of industrial capitalism. Michael Cassity considers this economic change from the broader perspective of an historian of the American people, offering insights into its social implications and consequences. With graceful and moving prose, Cassity focuses on the process of social change, the pains that change generated, and the resistance to it. In the course of this transformation, the author examines the ways in which workers, farmers, businessmen, and women experienced and responded to the rise of a new industrial order. |