Background
Prude, Jonathan was born on April 24, 1946 in New York City. Son of Walter and Agnes (deMille) Prude.
(This volume represents one of the first efforts to harves...)
This volume represents one of the first efforts to harvest the rapidly emerging scholarship in the field of American rural history. Building on the insights and methodologies that social historians have directed toward urban life, the contributors explore the past as it unfolded in the rural settings in which most Americans have lived during most of American history.The essays cover a broad range ...
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(This study of antebellum industrialisation in several com...)
This study of antebellum industrialisation in several communities in rural Massachusetts illuminates what industrialisation meant in the early to mid nineteenth-century. Jonathan Prude probes the tensions produced by the conflict between innovation and the received attitudes and institutions that still shaped daily existence. Two connected but discrete areas of tension emerged: that between workers and managers within certain manufacturing establishments (especially textiles), and between manufacturers and the communities in which they were located. The book demonstrates that antebellum industrialisation had a rural as well as an urban dimension and that, far from being the untroubled process described by some historians, it was a phenomenon characterised by deep conflict.
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Prude, Jonathan was born on April 24, 1946 in New York City. Son of Walter and Agnes (deMille) Prude.
Bachelor summa cum laude, Amherst College, 1968; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1976.
Social science, English teacher, Meadowbrook Junior H.S., Newton, Massachusetts, 1968-1969; teaching fellow history & literature, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1971-1975; instructor department history, Emory University, Atlanta, 1976; assistant professor of history, Emory University, 1976-1982; associate professor of history, Emory University, since 1982; director grad studies, department history, Emory University, 1987-1989. Instructor United States Navy Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe program, 1971-1972.
(This study of antebellum industrialisation in several com...)
(This volume represents one of the first efforts to harves...)
Member American History Association, American Studies Association, Organisation American Historians.
Married Rosemary Eberiel, November 21, 1975;children: David, Michael.
