Böcker av Hal S. Barron

Explores the rural responses to the transformation of the northern United States from an agricultural society into an urban and industrial one. The book argues that country people met the rise of large-scale organizational society and consumer culture with both resistance and accommodation.

Hal Barron reconstructs the social and economic history of a nineteenth-century rural community in America, Chelsea, Vermont. He explores the economic hardships and population loss that most of America at this time experienced growth and geographical expansion. This book provides an innovative contribution to the history of rural America.