Religion and the Working Class in Antebellum America - Rilegato

Lazerow, Jama

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 1560985445 ISBN 13: 9781560985440

Casa editrice: Smithsonian Inst Pr, 1995

Riassunto

Providing for the first time a national, regional, and local picture of religion's role in working-class formation, this book challenges the now common notion that the republican ideal constituted the principal ideological impulse behind the development of the early American labor movement. Uncovering the pervasive presence of Christian institutions, ritual, and language in the first flowerings of labor protest, Jama Lazerow argues that religion promoted a withering critique of industrializing America yet at the same time retarded the formation of working-class consciousness.
The book recreates the social and cultural world of workers in antebellum America with detailed studies of communities including Fall River, Fitchburg, and Boston, Massachusetts; Wilmington, Delaware; and Rochester, New York. Lazerow's exhaustive and unprecedented research - into local church records, tax lists, small-town historical society vaults, and private homes, as well as contemporary magazines, letters, diaries, and memoirs - has yielded a rich reinterpretation of working people and their churches.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Jama Lazerow is an associate professor of history at Wheelock College in Boston.

Product Description:

Book by LAZEROW JAMA

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Smithsonian Inst Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• ISBN 10: 1560985445
• ISBN 13: 9781560985440
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 353