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Class and Community
Alan Dawley
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Paperback. This work looks at the city of Lynn, Massachusetts, during the rise of industrialism in the early-19th century. It studies labour and class issues, poverty and progress, as well as women and black members of the community in this portrait of an eastern city on the verge of modernity. Series: Harvard Studies in Urban History. Num Pages: 332 pages, 2 halftones, 2 line drawings, 9 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBES; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; KCZ; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 444.
In this twenty-fifth anniversary edition of his prize-winning book, Dawley reflects once more on labor and class issues, poverty and progress, and the contours of urban history in the city of Lynn, Massachusetts, during the rise of industrialism in the early nineteenth century. He not only revisits this urban conglomeration, but also seeks out previously unheard groups such as women and blacks. The result is a more rounded portrait of a small eastern city on the verge of becoming modern.
In this twenty-fifth anniversary edition of his prize-winning book, Dawley reflects once more on labor and class issues, poverty and progress, and the contours of urban history in the city of Lynn, Massachusetts, during the rise of industrialism in the early nineteenth century. He not only revisits this urban conglomeration, but also seeks out previously unheard groups such as women and blacks. The result is a more rounded portrait of a small eastern city on the verge of becoming modern.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
332
Condition
New
Series
Harvard Studies in Urban History
Number of Pages
332
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674004313
SKU
V9780674004313
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About Alan Dawley
Alan Dawley was Professor of History, The College of New Jersey.
Reviews for Class and Community
At a time when global forces often seem more important than any particular place, this classic study of America's industrial revolution reminds us that the local community can sometimes provide the most revealing setting for understanding larger social processes.
Leon Fink, author of Progressive Intellectuals and the Dilemmas of Democratic Commitment Praise for the first edition: Class and Community is an original study. It does far more than help liberate local history from town boosters ... It restores the American industrial revolution to historiography's center stage, where it belongs.
New York Times
The author brilliantly examines the structure and culture of Lynn shoemakers...Diligent research, unearthing of new information, sophisticated conceptualization, imaginative thinking...make this book an extraordinary contribution in American social and economic history.
Historian
This is a welcome re-issue of one of the first and best of the community studies of industrial change in the nineteenth-century United States that emerged with the "new social history" of the 1970s. First published in 1976, Dawley's book was widely influential as a model case study, as an application of class analysis to American social history, and as an example of social history with the politics left in.
Christopher Clark
History
Leon Fink, author of Progressive Intellectuals and the Dilemmas of Democratic Commitment Praise for the first edition: Class and Community is an original study. It does far more than help liberate local history from town boosters ... It restores the American industrial revolution to historiography's center stage, where it belongs.
New York Times
The author brilliantly examines the structure and culture of Lynn shoemakers...Diligent research, unearthing of new information, sophisticated conceptualization, imaginative thinking...make this book an extraordinary contribution in American social and economic history.
Historian
This is a welcome re-issue of one of the first and best of the community studies of industrial change in the nineteenth-century United States that emerged with the "new social history" of the 1970s. First published in 1976, Dawley's book was widely influential as a model case study, as an application of class analysis to American social history, and as an example of social history with the politics left in.
Christopher Clark
History