UPC: 9780195036671 | Paths of Resistance: Tradition and Dignity in Industrializing Missouri (Hardcover)

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The years between 1865 and 1920 were eventful ones for the sake of Missouri. It was not only the time of Jesse James Scott Joplin and Mark Twain of progressive governors Joseph Folk and Herbert Hadley of the first general strike in St. Louis and some especially vicious vigilante activity it was also the time when Missouri like many other states was being transformed by the tides of industrialism and economic growth. This social history examines the social and economic forces that resisted economic development in Missouri. Here Thelen explores the various ways that people attempted to maintain their values and dignity in the face of overwhelming new economic cultural and political pressures and analyzes the grassroots patterns that emerged in response to rapid social change. Thelen who is one of the leading historians of the Progressive period in America contends that people found their strength not in class solidarity or other Marxist responses but in what he calls the resistance of folk memories which allowed them to call upon the best elements of their collective past to help them cope with the new situation.