Reading and Disorder in Antebellum America

by David M. Stewart

Book Overview

Historians of workingmen in the antebellum United States have long been preoccupied with labor politics and with the racism, nativism, and misogyny of their public culture. Reading and Disorder in Antebellum America expands our account of such men by asking questions about their social and bodily lives that are more discrete, yet still engaged with the economic forces that radically altered working life as the market revolution transformed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814256937
• ISBN13: 9780814256930
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"