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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 there. Yet, over the next half-century,
this idyllic village was to experience dramatic changes. While
calling forth images of great factories, mills, and machinery, the
industrial revolution involved far more than mere changes in modes
of production. The essence of industrialization was nothing less
than the full-scale societal transformation of economic, social,
and political institutions, as well as the emergence of a new
mind-set that brought about new ways of thinking and acting. In
this compellingly descriptive account, Michael Shirley examines the
case of 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. While providing a wealth of information about the
Winston-Salem community specifically, Michael Shirley's book 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 an entirely new meaning, namely as a forum in which competing
individuals pursued privateopportunities and interests.
This title was first published in 2001. The eminent historian of
Victorian Britain, Walter L. Arnstein has, over the course of a
career spanning more than 40 years, arguably introduced more
students to British history than any other American historian. This
collection of essays by some of his former students celebrates
Arnstein's inspirational teaching and writing with surveys and
analyses of various aspects of the social, cultural, economic and
political history of nineteenth and early twentieth-century
Britain. Nineteenth-century topics covered in the volume include
early Victorian caricatures and the thin legal lines that they
often trod; British Army fashion and its contribution to Royal
spectacles; Free Trade Radicals and how they viewed educational
reform and moral progress; the persistence of Chartist ideology
following the failure of the movement in 1848; Disraeli and Derby's
involvement with the Navy's administration; religious periodicals
and their influence; the myth of Bismarck as an honest broker of
peace and the subsequent collapse of the myth as a later source of
enmity in Anglo-German relations; the powerful mystique evoked back
in England by the London missionary societies Mongolian; missions;
Victorian urban planning and the re-introduction of the market
place.
This title was first published in 2001. The eminent historian of
Victorian Britain, Walter L. Arnstein has, over the course of a
career spanning more than 40 years, arguably introduced more
students to British history than any other American historian. This
collection of essays by some of his former students celebrates
Arnstein's inspirational teaching and writing with surveys and
analyses of various aspects of the social, cultural, economic and
political history of nineteenth and early twentieth-century
Britain. Nineteenth-century topics covered in the volume include
early Victorian caricatures and the thin legal lines that they
often trod; British Army fashion and its contribution to Royal
spectacles; Free Trade Radicals and how they viewed educational
reform and moral progress; the persistence of Chartist ideology
following the failure of the movement in 1848; Disraeli and Derby's
involvement with the Navy's administration; religious periodicals
and their influence; the myth of Bismarck as an honest broker of
peace and the subsequent collapse of the myth as a later source of
enmity in Anglo-German relations; the powerful mystique evoked back
in England by the London missionary societies Mongolian; missions;
Victorian urban planning and the re-introduction of the market
place.
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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