Those who stayed behind : rural society in nineteenth-century New England /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Barron, Hal S.
Imprint:	Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1984.
Description:	xiii, 184 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Interdisciplinary perspectives on modern history
Subject:	Rural population -- New England -- Case studies. Rural-urban migration -- New England -- History -- 19th century -- Case studies. Rural conditions. Rural population. Rural-urban migration. New England -- Rural conditions -- Case studies. Chelsea (Vt. : Town) -- History. New England. Vermont -- Chelsea (Town) Case studies. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/595736

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ISBN:	0521257840
Notes:	Includes index. Bibliography: p. 163-177.

Table of Contents:

List of tables and illustrations
Preface
1. After the frontier: theory, historiography, and the social history of settled rural America
2. The storm before the calm: growth and conflict in a developing rural community
3. The different meanings of rural decline in nineteenth-century America
4. Quitting the farm and closing the shop: the economy of a settled rural community
5. The ties that bind: migration and persistence in a settled rural community
6. Their town: the emergence of consensus and homogeneity in a settled rural community
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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