Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788-1850 - Softcover

Wilentz, Sean

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195040120 ISBN 13: 9780195040128

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1986

Synopsis

Chants Democratic is a fascinating reinterpretation of the origins and development of our nation's working class, as seen through the politics, culture, and ideas of New York City during the Jacksonian period. Here, Wilentz explores the dramatic social and intellectual changes that accompanied early industrialization in New York. Wilentz examines the significant roles played by immigration, religion, and women in the formation of new social classes. Using court records, ceremonial speeches, and art to illuminate the changes of the period, Chants Democratic presents a rich and detailed portrait of the social life, political battles, and cultural development in the emerging American metropolis.

About this title

About the Author:

Sean Wilentz is at Princeton University.

Review:

"Gives the student of the Jacksonian Era an insider's look at the developing labor system of the northern industrialization process. In my 'Voices of the Union' course I use Chants to contrast the young republic's divergent and conflicting concepts of the Union, including its ideologic,
economic, political, religious, and historical identities."--Wayne Cutler, University of Tennessee

"A brilliant book."--U. Scharff, University of New Mexico

"Certainly the best book yet written about the emergence of New York City's working class and a major contribution to American working-class history."--The New Republic

"[Chants Democratic is] nothing less than a scholarly epic...it has no equal in breadth of subject, grace of style or acuity of interpretation."--The Nation

"A great leap forward in both American social and American political history....Wilentz has written the statement on Jacksonian New York."--Journal of American History

"Chants Democratic is a remarkable book that will quickly establish itself in the historiography and exert a powerful influence on the future direction of social, labor, and political history."--Journal of Interdisciplinary History

"Wilentz's Chants Democratic gives the student of the JACKSONIAN ERA an insider's look at the developing labor system of the northern industrialization process. In my "Voices of Union" course, I use hants to contrast the young Republic's divergent and conflicting concepts of the Union,
inclusing its ieologic, economic, political, religious, and historical identities."--Professor Wayne Cutler, University of Tennessee

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0195040120
• ISBN 13: 9780195040128
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 480