Circular And Catalogue Of The Albany Female Academy

Author : Nancy Beadie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521196280
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (211 download)

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Download or read book Education and the Creation of Capital in the Early American Republic written by Nancy Beadie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-30 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that schools were a driving force in the formation of social, political, and financial capital during the market revolution and capitalist transition of the early republican era. Grounded in an intensive study of schooling in the Genesee Valley region of upstate New York, it traces early sources of funding and support for education (including common schools and various forms of higher schooling) to their roots in different social and economic networks and trade and credit relations. It then interprets that story in the context of other major developments in early American social, political, and economic history, such as the shift from agricultural to non-agricultural production, the integration of rural economies into translocal capitalist markets, the organization of the Second Great Awakening, the transformation of patriarchy, the expansion of white male suffrage, the emergence of the Secondary American Party System, and the formation of the modern liberal state.