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Title: Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788-1850 by Sean Wilentz ISBN: 0-19-504012-0 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: March, 1986 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Don't bother
Comment: I read this book a few years ago as part of my Master's degree program in American History. It's the most impenetrable gobbledygook I've ever read; a great example of how too much history is being written for other PhDs, though I doubt if any PhD other than Wilentz understands it. Don't waste your time unless you need further proof that Wilentz in more interested in political grandstanding than writing good history.
Rating: 5
Summary: If You Want to Understand Am. Labor History
Comment: The other contributor must not be very serious about the study of history. You will find this book on every 19th-Century U.S. PhD reading list from Columbia to Okla. State U. If you want to understand Am. labor history, antebellum history, class stratification, free v. slave labor, this is one of the most valuable books you can read. It's not for casual reading, but if you're SERIOUS about understanding American history it's for you.
Rating: 2
Summary: The trivial elevated to the status of the epochal.
Comment: This book's topic lends itself to a desultory journal article. My graduate seminar professor insisted that we read the book, and I was a dutiful soldier. Having read it, I can only say that it seems to me to be far less interesting/illuminating than he supposed. The last thirty years have witnessed the appearance of a profusion of books about obscure people, and reading this one will remind you why it was that those people's stories formerly were obscure.
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Title: A Consumers' Republic : The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America by LIZABETH COHEN ISBN: 0375707379 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 30 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Monied Metropolis : New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie, 1850-1896 by Sven Beckert ISBN: 0521524105 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 03 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West by William Cronon ISBN: 0393308731 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: May, 1992 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Elusive Republic: Political Economy in Jeffersonian America by Drew R. McCoy ISBN: 0807846163 Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr Pub. Date: September, 1996 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America by Ira Berlin ISBN: 0674002113 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: 04 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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