Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788-1850

ISBN-13: 9780195174496 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 480 str.

Sean Wilentz

Opis

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.

Recenzje

"Wilentz's Chants Democratic gives the student of the JACKSONIAN ERA an insider's look at the developing labor system of the northern industrialization process. In my "Voices of Union" course, I use hants to contrast the young Republic's divergent and conflicting concepts of the Union, inclusing its ieologic, economic, political, religious, and historical identities."—Professor Wayne Cutler, University of Tennessee

O autorze

Sean Wilentz is Dayton-Stockton Professor of History and Director of the Program in American Studies at Princeton University.