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From Congregation Town to Industrial City - Culture and Social Change in a Southern Community (Paperback, New edition)
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From Congregation Town to Industrial City - Culture and Social Change in a Southern Community (Paperback, New edition)
Series: The American Social Experience
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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 dramatic changes. The
Industrial Revolution calls forth images of great factories, mills,
and machinery; yet, the character of the Industrial Revolution went
beyond mere changes in modes of production. It meant the radical
transformation of economic, social, and political institutions, and
the emergence of a new mindset that brought about new ways of
thinking and acting. Here is the illuminating story of
Winston-Salem, a community of artisans and small farmers united, as
members of a religious congregation, by a single vision of life.
Transformed in just a few decades from an agricultural region into
the home of the smokestacks and office towers of the R.J. Reynolds
Tobacco Company and the Wachovia Bank and Trust Company, the
Moravian community at Salem offers an illuminating illustration of
the changes that swept Southern society in the nineteenth century
and the concomitant development in these communities of a new
ethos. Providing a rich wealth of information about the
Winston-Salem community specifically, From Congregation Town to
Industrial City also significantly broadens our understanding of
how wholesale changes in the nineteenth century South redefined the
meaning and experience of community. For, by the end of the
century, community had gained an entirely new meaning, namely as a
forum in which competing individuals pursued private opportunities
and interests.
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