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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 here. Yet, over the next half-century, this idyllic village was to experience drama...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Shirley, Michael
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, ©1994.
Colección:American social experience series ; 30.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Maps
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • ONE. The Congregational Community of the Moravians
  • TWO. The Congregation and a Changing Economy
  • THREE. Manufacturing and Community in Salem
  • FOUR. Community Culture in Antebellum Salem
  • FIVE. The Community at War
  • SIX. Postbellum Winston and Salem: The Emergence of a Business Class
  • SEVEN. Workers in an Industrial Community
  • EIGHT. The Industrial Community: Drawing the Lines of Class and Race
  • Conclusion
  • APPENDIX A. Rules and Regulations
  • APPENDIX B. Occupational Classifications for Population Sample from 1850 Census
  • APPENDIX C. Occupational Classifications for Population Sample from 1880 Census
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index