Social Change in America From the Revolution Through the Civil War.(Book review)

Historian, The, 20090129 by Gonzalez, Michael J.

Social Change in America From the Revolution Through the Civil War. By Christopher Clark. (Chicago, Ill.: Ivan R. Dee, 2006. Pp. xiii, 349. $27.50.)

This author's latest effort, like all good books, yields many rewards. Students and instructors, especially those who need lucid explanations to write lectures for a freshman survey class, will learn that the household, by which Christopher Clark means the family with father, mother, and children, served as the foundation for American economic success between 1770 and 1870. In the north, the household provided the labor and capital for farming. Later, as prosperity increased, some families used their profits to invest in manufacturing or shipping. Over time, family patriarchs erected transportation and banking...

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