Social Change in America: From the Revolution Through the Civil WarIvan R. Dee, 2006 - 349 strani The processes of social change in the late colonial period and early years of the new Republic made a dramatic imprint on the character of American society. These changes over a century or more were rooted in the origins of the United States, its rapid expansion of people and territory, its patterns of economic change and development, and the conflicts that led to its cataclysmic division and reunification through the Civil War. Christopher Clark's brilliant account of these changes in the social relationships of Americans breaks new ground in its emphasis on the connections between the crucial importance of free and unfree labor, regional characteristics, and the sustained tension between arguments for geographic expansion versus economic development. Mr. Clark traces the significance of families and households throughout the period, showing how work and different kinds of labor produced a varied access to power and wealth among free and unfree, male and female, and how the character of social elites was confronted by democratic pressures. He shows how the features of the different regions exercised long-term influences in American society and politics and were modified by pressures for change. And he explains how the widening gap between the claims of free labor and those of slavery fueled the continuing dispute over the best economic course for the nation's future and led ultimately to the Civil War. Like other long-running divisions in American society, however, this dispute was not fully resolved by the war's outcome. Social Change in America is a compelling new overview of the social dynamics of America's early years. |
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... port towns scattered along New England's coasts . Boston , the largest of these towns , with a population of about fifteen thousand at the end of the colonial period , was a significant commercial and governmental center - capital of ...
... port towns scattered along New England's coasts . Boston , the largest of these towns , with a population of about fifteen thousand at the end of the colonial period , was a significant commercial and governmental center - capital of ...
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... ports were areas of relative poverty and economic instability . In particular , the port towns were home to considerable numbers of households headed by women , whose marginality in a society where men usually controlled property was ...
... ports were areas of relative poverty and economic instability . In particular , the port towns were home to considerable numbers of households headed by women , whose marginality in a society where men usually controlled property was ...
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... ocean and the port towns was one often followed by his generation.11 During the commercial prosperity of the 1790s the number of jobs at sea grew and would remain substantial for some time . As late as 1820 , seamen constituted the ...
... ocean and the port towns was one often followed by his generation.11 During the commercial prosperity of the 1790s the number of jobs at sea grew and would remain substantial for some time . As late as 1820 , seamen constituted the ...
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Social Change in the Early Republic | 79 |
Two Directions for Labor | 122 |
Crisis and Expansion | 169 |
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