The Countryside in the Age of Capitalist Transformation
Subtitle: Essays in the Social History of Rural America
Contributors: Jonathan Prude (Editor)
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: January 1986
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9780807816660
Subjects: Rural communities; Social History; Sociology; Rural Sociology; United States; Social conditions; To 1865; Sociology - Rural; History; Rural conditions; Sociology, Rural
First sentence: In the late summer of 1839, Henry David Thoreau committed to his notebook a half-dozen lyrical pages on the coming of factories to the New England countryside.