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Article: The Artificial River: The Erie Canal and the Paradox of Progress, 1817-1862.(Review)
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- Journal of Social History
- Article date:
- December 22, 1998
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By Carol Sheriff (New York: Hill and Wang, 1996. xvii plus 251pp. $21.00).
Two decades ago, Paul E. Johnson's landmark book A Shopkeeper's Millennium explored the social context of religious revivalism in the booming Erie Canal town of Rochester, New York, linking it to the residential separation and mutual antagonism of the emerging class relations of early industrial capitalism. Carol Sheriff, in this striking and well-argued study, examines some of the same issues, but from a different perspective. In doing so she captures some of the ways in which nineteenth century social history has evolved since Johnson's book was written.
Focusing on the Erie ...