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Program

Research Programs: Summer Stipends

Period of Performance

7/1/1977 - 9/30/1977

Funding Totals

$2,500.00 (approved)
$2,500.00 (awarded)

The coming of the Industrial Order: A Study of Town and Factory Life in Rural Massachusetts, 1813-1860

FAIN: FT-13294-77

Jonathan D. Prude
Emory University (Atlanta, GA 30322-1018)

To assess the social and cultural meaning of industrialization in rural New England during the ante-bellum period through an exploration of the consequences arising from the establishment, in 1813, of several large textiles mills on the outskirts of two Massachusetts townships (Dudley and Oxford).