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Social Change in America - From the Revolution to the Civil War (Paperback)
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Social Change in America - From the Revolution to the Civil War (Paperback)
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Loot Price R538
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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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