num_pages: 480
description: Since its publication in 1984, Chants Democratic has endured as a classic narrative on labor and the rise of American democracy. In it, Sean Wilentz explores the dramatic social and intellectual changes that accompanied early industrialization in New York. He provides a panoramic chronicle of New York City's labor strife, social movements, and political turmoil in the eras of Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson. Twenty years after its initial publication, Wilentz has added a new preface that takes stock of his own thinking, then and now, about New York City and the rise of the American working class.
language: English
title: Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788-1850, 20th Anniversary Edition
titlecomplete: Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788-1850, 20th Anniversary Edition
genres: New York, History, American History, Urban Studies, 19th Century, Nonfiction, Labor, Politics
ratings_count: 235
places: New York City, New York
awards: awardedAt: 441792000000
name: Albert J. Beveridge Award, awardedAt: 473414400000
name: Frederick Jackson Turner Award
publisher: Oxford University Press