From Congregation Town to Industrial City: Culture and Social Change in a Southern Community

by Michael Shirley

In 1835, Winston and Salem was a well-ordered, bucolic, and attractive North Carolina town. A visitor could walk up Main Street from the village square and get a sense of the quiet Moravian community that had settled here. Yet, over the next half-century, this idyllic village was to experience dramatic changes.
The Industrial Revolution calls forth images of great factories, mills, and machinery; yet, the character of the Industrial Revolution...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814780865
• ISBN13: 9780814780862
• Release Date: August 1997
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"