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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: Rockdale: The Growth of an American Village in the Early Industrial Revolution (Paperback)
Rockdale is not your average historiographic novel. It is in fact a case study: but a case study of a Community over period of decades. It provides a masterful description of a society during transformation. The Detail of the account is truly intriguing. Even if you do not agree/care what Wallace tries to convey, the book is a prime source of ethnographic information about religion, early capitalism, industrial revolution, and Christian capitalism in 19th century East Coast, North America. It is exciting to read; there's a lot of detailed human stories.
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Nice intimate view of my neighborhood,
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This review is from: Rockdale: The Growth of an American Village in the Early Industrial Revolution (A Norton Paperback) (Paperback)
Living west of Philadelphia, you get a sense of history just seeing old mill remnants and stone homes. This lets you see how they got there. My side of Aston, PA is the site of all this going on, people, mills, economics, religion. Neat book.
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Rockdale: The Growth of an American Village in the Early Industrial Revolution (A Norton Paperback) by Anthony F. C. Wallace (Paperback - June 1980)
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