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The Antebellum Period
James M. Volo, Dorothy Denneen Volo
Book Code: GR2518
ISBN: 0-313-32518-9
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-32518-2
432 pages, photos; tables
Greenwood Press
Publication: 6/30/2004
List Price: $55.00 (UK Sterling Price: £31.95)
Availability: Print on demand
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • The wealth of interesting information about life in the nineteenth century brings the whole period alive and might also invite further reading from this worthwhile period.
    —VOYA     April 2005
  • While learning about government, great leaders, and war is obviously crucial to the study of history, learning about the everyday life of the regular man and woman is just as important in gaining a holistic view of the past. Greenwood excels at looking at history this way....[e]asy to read and informative....[r]ecommended for high-school, undergraduatem and public libraries. Could just as well be placed in the circulating collection as in reference.
    —Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin     January 2005
Description: The Antebellum Era was a complex time in American culture. Young ladies had suitors call upon them, while men often settled quarrels by dueling, and "mill girls" worked 16-hour days to help their families make ends meet. Yet at the same time, a new America was emerging. The rapid growth of cities inspired Frederick Law Olmstead to lead the movement for public parks. Stephen Foster helped forge a catalog of American popular music; writers such as Washington Irving and Ralph Waldo Emerson raised the level of American literature; artists such as Thomas Cole and Thomas Doughty defined a new style of painting called the Hudson River School. All the while, schisms between northern and southern culture threatened to divide the nation. This volume in Greenwood's American Popular Culture Through History recounts the ways in which things old and new intersected in the decades before the Civil War. James and Dorothy Volo are one of the more prolific author teams in reference publishing today, and with this volume they make important contributions to Greenwood's successful series on America's "other history."
Table of Contents:
  • Series Foreword
  • Introduction
  • Chronology
  • Everyday America
  • World of Youth
  • Advertising
  • Architecture
  • Fashion
  • Food
  • Leisure Activities
  • Literature
  • Music
  • Performing Arts
  • Travel
  • Visual Arts
  • Cost of Products in Antebellum Era
  • Selected Reading
LC Card Number: 2004043892
LCC Class: E166
Dewey Class: 973
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