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The Diffusion Of British Steam Technology And The First Creation Of America's Urban Proletariat, Mark Stephen Stanzione
The Diffusion Of British Steam Technology And The First Creation Of America's Urban Proletariat, Mark Stephen Stanzione
MALS Final Projects, 1995-2019
The intent of this thesis project is to thoroughly analyze the effects of the transatlantic transfer of British steam engine machinery to the United States during the Antebellum and Gilded Ages. The American assimilation of British steam engine technology sustained improvements in industrial production, commerce, and transportation. In the process, transforming the work habits of native-born Americans and recent European immigrants by creating the need for a more mobile labor force while leading to the first urban proletariat in American society.
The transatlantic transfer of textile machine technology disseminated to America from England, during the Republic, had initiated the movement …
American Popular Culture And The Struggle For Art: Rock 'N ' Roll As Metaphor, David R. Larson
American Popular Culture And The Struggle For Art: Rock 'N ' Roll As Metaphor, David R. Larson
MALS Final Projects, 1995-2019
Contrary to traditional reckoning, Rock and Roll between Elvis Presley and Punk Rock was not a revolutionary genre. It has for years been accorded mythical status, but as my thesis attempts to illustrate, such an aggrandizement of its place in history overlooks and overshadows the complex operational dynamic by which it empowered and was empowered by its audiences. My goal is to relocate Rock from its lofty place as a harbinger of cultural of social and cultural change and place it in the more modest position of that of a historically locatable event within American popular music industry.
Insofar as …