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Rockdale: The Growth of an American Village in the Early Industrial Revolution Paperback – June 1, 2005

by Anthony F. C. Wallace (Author)
4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
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A celebrated triumph of historiography, Rockdale tells the story of the Industrial Revolution as it was experienced by the men, women, and children of the cotton-manufacturing town of Rockdale, Pennsylvania. The lives of workers, managers, inventors, owners, and entrepreneurs are brilliantly illuminated by Anthony F. C. Wallace, who also describes the complex technology that governed all of Rockdale’s townspeople. Wallace examines the new relationships between employer and employee as work and workers moved out of the fields into the closed-in world of the spinning mule, the power loom, and the mill office. He brings to light the impassioned battle for the soul of the mill worker, a struggle between the exponents of the Enlightenment and Utopian Socialism, on the one hand, and, on the other, the ultimately triumphant champions of evangelical Christianity.
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    554 pages
  2. Language
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  3. Publisher
    University of Nebraska Press
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    June 1, 2005
  5. Dimensions
    6.24 x 1.26 x 8.88 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0803298536
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0803298538
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“Extraordinary and brilliant. . . . Rockdale has the dimensions of an important event in American historical writing. It is not only a splendid reconstruction of the past . . . [b]ut a powerful interpretive reading that reconceives the very basis for the study of American industrialization. . . . A book of epic proportions.”—New York Times Book Review

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Anthony F. C. Wallace is University Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. His many books include Revitalizations and Mazeways, Modernity and Mind, and The Social Context of Innovation, all published by the University of Nebraska Press.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of Nebraska Press (June 1, 2005)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 554 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0803298536
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0803298538
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.75 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.24 x 1.26 x 8.88 inches
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CarvedBlock
5.0 out of 5 stars Extraordinary Breadth
Reviewed in the United States on October 20, 2010
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Rockdale is not your average historiographic novel. It is in fact a case study: but a case study of a Community over period of decades. It provides a masterful description of a society during transformation. The Detail of the account is truly intriguing. Even if you do not agree/care what Wallace tries to convey, the book is a prime source of ethnographic information about religion, early capitalism, industrial revolution, and Christian capitalism in 19th century East Coast, North America. It is exciting to read; there's a lot of detailed human stories.
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William E. Graddy
5.0 out of 5 stars I read ROCKDALE when some years ago I co-taught an ...
Reviewed in the United States on September 29, 2014
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I read ROCKDALE when some years ago I co-taught an American Lit course with a historian, Joel Carpenter. I've encountered no book that opens a clearer or better-situated window on the development of American industry, ideology, and morality in the first two-thirds of the nineteenth century. Wallace explains the intricacies of water-driven textile machinery as deftly as he unpacks the bewildering but inspiring mix of idealisms that built utopian communities and overthrew slavery in America.
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Jean
5.0 out of 5 stars great book
Reviewed in the United States on March 11, 2019
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love the history
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Polly
4.0 out of 5 stars Historial Info on area rarely covered
Reviewed in the United States on February 2, 2014
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Interesting book on the Rockdale area of Aston, PA; industrial side well-covered. Had hoped more would be included about Calvary, Rockdale Episcopal Church and its large cemetery along with its inhabitants.
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Heidi Hammel
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on June 25, 2018
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Book arrived in excellent condition, as advertised.
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Eva Vanstratum
4.0 out of 5 stars Nice intimate view of my neighborhood
Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2007
Living west of Philadelphia, you get a sense of history just seeing old mill remnants and stone homes. This lets you see how they got there. My side of Aston, PA is the site of all this going on, people, mills, economics, religion. Neat book.
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Marge
5.0 out of 5 stars Rockdale History
Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2020
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Very detailed
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