Review Adds an important human dimension to our understanding of early American industrialization., Library Journal"Farm to Factory" is an attractive addition to the literature. Dublin has collected a series of respresentative letters, not published before. The letters...are often very touching.", Boston GlobeThomas Dublin has mad a valuable contribution to the history of American women with this engrossing collection of letters of New England millworkers of the antebellum era... [The letters] put flesh and blood on the era's quantitative data, balance the male-dominated picture of early industrial capitalism, and show that mill employment encouraged the social, cultural, and economic independence of women.", Radcliffe Quarterly"Farm to Factory" will attract students to the lives of the women of the past, not only because it contains revealing documents, but because the documents are introduced and displayed with extraordinary sensitivity and intelligence.", International Labor and Working Class History Read more From the Back Cover This volume contains a chronological table of Chinese history beginning with 2852 B.C. up to A.D. 1849. In addition to presenting the major schools of classical philosophy, this volume discusses yin-yang theories of cosmology and geomancy and the rationale of monarchy and dynastic rule. Read more See all Editorial Reviews
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