From Congregation Town to Industrial City : : Culture and Social Change in a Southern Community /

From Congregation Town to Industrial City : : Culture and Social Change in a Southern Community / / Michael Shirley.

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 drama...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
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Shirley, Michael,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [1994]
©1994
Year of Publication:1994
Language:English
Series:The American Social Experience ; 3
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Maps
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • ONE. The Congregational Community of the Moravians
  • TWO. The Congregation and a Changing Economy
  • THREE. Manufacturing and Community in Salem
  • FOUR. Community Culture in Antebellum Salem
  • FIVE. The Community at War
  • SIX. Postbellum Winston and Salem: The Emergence of a Business Class
  • SEVEN. Workers in an Industrial Community
  • EIGHT. The Industrial Community: Drawing the Lines of Class and Race
  • Conclusion
  • APPENDIX A. Rules and Regulations
  • APPENDIX B. Occupational Classifications for Population Sample from 1850 Census
  • APPENDIX C. Occupational Classifications for Population Sample from 1880 Census
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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