Author: William J. Gilmore

Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press

Published: 1992-08

Total Pages: 572

ISBN-13: 9780870497681

Gilmore (history, Stockton State College) is concerned with the half century following independence, during which rural New England changed from a traditional agricultural region into a commercialized one. He examines the links among cultural, social, and economic aspects of this transformation, an ingredient of which was an ideological commitment to reading and learning. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR