Rockdale : the growth of an American village in the early industrial revolution / Anthony F.C. Wallace ; technical drawings by Robert Howard.

Main entry:

Wallace, Anthony F. C., 1923-

Title & Author:

Rockdale : the growth of an American village in the early industrial revolution / Anthony F.C. Wallace ; technical drawings by Robert Howard.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Description:

xx, 553 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 515-533) and index.
Sweet, quiet Rockdale -- A town of mules and widows -- The assembling of the industrialists -- The machines, their operatives, and the fabrics -- The inventors of the machines -- The enlightenment's last campaign -- The evangelical counterattack -- The emergence of Christian industrialism -- Marching to millennium.
Bancroft Prize, 1979.

Summary:

The author tells the story of the Industrial Revolution as it was experienced by the men, women, and children of the cotton-manufacturing town of Rockdale, Pennsylvania during the four decades before and during the Civil War.

Resources:
Available from ACLS Humanities

ISBN:

0394421205
9780394421209

Subject:

Cotton trade Pennsylvania Rockdale History.
Industrial revolution Pennsylvania Rockdale.
Cotton trade Pennsylvania Rockdale.
Industries Pennsylvania Rockdale History.
Coton Commerce Pennsylvanie Rockdale.
Industrie Pennsylvanie Rockdale Histoire.
Révolution industrielle Pennsylvanie Rockdale.
58.23 textile industry, paper industry.
Industries
Cotton trade
Industrial revolution
Social conditions
Cotton industry.
Rockdale (Pa.) Social conditions.
Rockdale (Pa.) Religious life and customs.
Rockdale, Penns. Conditions sociales.
Rockdale, Penns. Vie religieuse Histoire.
Pennsylvania Rockdale
Pennsylvania.

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 44793
Call No.: 2571; ID:89-B4236
Status: Available

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