Those Who Stayed Behind Rural Society in Nineteenth-Century New England

Name: Those Who Stayed Behind Rural Society in Nineteenth-Century New England
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ISBN: 9780521347778

ISBN-10: 0521347777

ISBN-13: 9780521347778

Edition: 2nd (Revised)

Authors: Hal S. Barron, Robert Fogel, Stephan Thernstrom

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In a departure from the longstanding emphasis on the frontier in American historical writing, Hal Barron employs a range of sources to reconstruct the social and economic history of a nineteenth-century rural community - Chelsea, Vermont -which was profoundly affected by population loss and economic stagnation at a time when most of the country was experiencing geographical expansion and economic growth. The author''s lucid, accessible account explores the hard choices faced by the people of Chelsea as the economic vitality drained out of their community, and shows how they dealt with these choices. Using new methods of social history to place Chelsea in the larger context of…

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List price: $31.99
Edition: 2nd
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 1/29/1988
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 200
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.47" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English

Hal S. Barron, author of Those Who Stayed Behind: Rural Society in Nineteenth-Century New England, is professor of history at Harvey Mudd College and a member of the history faculty at the Claremont Graduate School in California.



List of tables and illustrations


Preface



After the frontier: theory, historiography, and the social history of settled rural America



The storm before the calm: growth and conflict in a developing rural community



The different meanings of rural decline in nineteenth-century America



Quitting the farm and closing the shop: the economy of a settled rural community



The ties that bind: migration and persistence in a settled rural community



Their town: the emergence of consensus and homogeneity in a settled rural community


Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Index