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

by Michael Shirley

Book Overview

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: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814779778
• ISBN13: 9780814779774
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"