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Listening to Nineteenth-Century America (Paperback, New edition)
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Listening to Nineteenth-Century America (Paperback, New edition)
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Sound, sectionalism, and the coming of the Civil War; Arguing for
the importance of the aural dimension of history, Mark Smith
contends that to understand what it meant to be northern or
southern, slave or free - to understand sectionalism and the
attitudes toward modernity that led to the Civil War - we must
consider how antebellum Americans comprehended the sounds and
silences they heard. Smith explores how northerners and southerners
perceived the sounds associated with antebellum developments
including the market revolution, industrialization, westward
expansion, and abolitionism. In northern modernization, southern
slaveholders heard the noise of the mob, the din of industrialism,
and threats to what they considered their quiet, orderly way of
life; in southern slavery, northern abolitionists and capitalists
heard the screams of enslaved labor, the silence of oppression, and
signals of premodernity that threatened their vision of the
American future. Sectional consciousness was profoundly influenced
by the sounds people attributed to their regions. And as
sectionalism hardened into fierce antagonism, it propelled the
nation toward its most earsplitting conflict, the Civil War.
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