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Those who Stayed Behind: Rural Society in Nineteenth-Century New England (Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Modern History)

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In a departure from the longstanding emphasis at the frontier in American historical writing, Hal Barron employs a range of sources to reconstruct the social and economic history of a nineteenth-century rural community – Chelsea, Vermont -which used to be profoundly suffering from population loss and economic stagnation at a time when some of the country used to be experiencing geographical expansion and economic growth. The writer’s lucid, accessible account explores the hard choices faced by the people of Chelsea as the economic vitality drained out in their community and shows how they dealt with these choices. The use of new methods of social history to position Chelsea within the larger context of nineteenth-century American culture and society, this book provides an innovative contribution to the history of rural The usa.

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