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Rockdale: The Growth of an American Village in the Early Industrial Revolution
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by Anthony F. C. Wallace
Sales Rank: 891903
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Features
Cover Type: Paperback with 554 pages
Published by: University of Nebraska Press June 1, 2005
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0803298536
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0803298538
Book Dimensions:
8.9 x 6 x 1.3 inches
Weighs: 1.7 pounds
Product Review
“Extraordinary and brilliant. . . . Rockdale has the dimensions of an important event in American historical writing. It is not only a splendid reconstruction of the past . . . [b]ut a powerful interpretive reading that reconceives the very basis for the study of American industrialization. . . . A book of epic proportions.”—New York Times Book Review (New York Times Book Review )
Product Description
A celebrated triumph of historiography, Rockdale tells the story of the Industrial Revolution as it was experienced by the men, women, and children of the cotton-manufacturing town of Rockdale, Pennsylvania. The lives of workers, managers, inventors, owners, and entrepreneurs are brilliantly illuminated by Anthony F. C. Wallace, who also describes the complex technology that governed all of Rockdale’s townspeople. Wallace looks at the new relationships between employer and employee as work and workers moved out of the fields into the closed-in world of the spinning mule, the power loom, and the mill office. He brings to light the impassioned battle for the soul of the mill worker, a struggle between the exponents of the Enlightenment and Utopian Socialism, on the one hand, and, on the other, the ultimately triumphant champions of evangelical Christianity.
Reader Reviews
This review is from: Rockdale: The Growth of an American Village in the Early Industrial Revolution (A Norton Paperback) (Paperback)
Living west of Philadelphia, you get a sense of history just seeing old mill remnants and stone homes. This lets you see how they got there. My side of Aston, PA is the site of all this going on, people, mills, economics, religion. Neat book.
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