Listening to Nineteenth-Century America

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Listening to Nineteenth-Century America

Arguing for the importance of the aural dimension of history, Mark M. Smith contends that to understand what it meant to be northern or southern, slave or free--to understand sectionalism and the attitudes toward modernity that led to the Civil War--we must consider how antebellum Americans comprehended the sounds and silences they heard.

Smith explores how northerners and southerners perceived the sounds associated with antebellum developments including the market revolution, industrialization, westward expansion, and abolitionism. In northern modernization, southern slaveholders heard the noise of the mob, the din of industrialism, and threats to what they considered their quiet, orderly way of life; in southern slavery, northern abolitionists and capitalists heard the screams of enslaved labor, the silence of oppression, and signals of premodernity that threatened their vision of the American future. Sectional consciousness was profoundly influenced by the sounds people attributed to their regions. And as sectionalism hardened into fierce antagonism, it propelled the nation toward its most earsplitting conflict, the Civil War.

Country	USA
Author	Mark M. Smith
Binding	Paperback
Brand	Brand: The University of North Carolina Press
Color	Other
EAN	9780807849828
Feature	Used Book in Good Condition
ISBN	0807849820
Label	The University of North Carolina Press
Manufacturer	The University of North Carolina Press
MPN	illustrations, 4 maps, notes, bibliograp
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	384
PartNumber	illustrations, 4 maps, notes, bibliograp
PublicationDate	2001-12-09
Publisher	The University of North Carolina Press
Studio	The University of North Carolina Press
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Listening to Nineteenth-Century America

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