Rockdale: the growth of an American village in the early industrial revolution. An account of the coming of the machines, the making of a new way of life in the mill hamlets, the triumph of evangelical capitalists over socialists and infidels, and the transformation of the workers into Christian soldiers in a cotton-manufacturing district in Pennsylvania in the years before and during the Civil War. Technical drawings by Robert Howard
by Wallace, Anthony F.C
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- ISBN 10
- 0394421205
- ISBN 13
- 9780394421209
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. Hardcover. xx, 553p., illus., very good condition in an unclipped and slightly shelfworn dust jacket.
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- Title
- Rockdale: the growth of an American village in the early industrial revolution. An account of the coming of the machines, the making of a new way of life in the mill hamlets, the triumph of evangelical capitalists over socialists and infidels, and the transformation of the workers into Christian soldiers in a cotton-manufacturing district in Pennsylvania in the years before and during the Civil War. Technical drawings by Robert Howard
- Author
- Wallace, Anthony F.C
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0394421205
- ISBN 13
- 9780394421209
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1978
- Bookseller catalogs
- Labor - American; Textiles; Nineteenth century; Pennsylvania;
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