| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.1

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.1 | The History Cooperative

Christopher Clark. Social Change in America: From the Revolution through the Civil War. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee. 2006. Pp. xiii, 342. $27.50.
From Christopher Clark's first book, The Roots of Rural Capitalism: Western Massachusetts, 1780–1860 (1990) onward, he has explored the theme of market and capitalist transformation in the young United States. He continues that exploration in this volume. The book is synthetic rather than monographic, drawing together Clark's mastery of a broad range of scholarship. Aiming at an upper-division undergraduate/graduate student readership, Clark tells how the United States moved from the small farmer/artisanal/slave plantation/merchant-capitalist society that emerged from the American Revolution to the industrial giant that followed the Civil War. I would gladly recommend this book to anyone, student or general reader, who wanted the sort of overview that the title promises.	1
As Clark notes, however, the large story of American social development cannot be a single narrative. He understands that American social history necessarily is writ small, in specific tales. Clark builds his book around six themes: families and households, the organization of work and labor, the emergence of new social structures, the relationships between elites and plebeians, regional differences, and persistent tension between extensive expansion and intensive development. Interwoven, these themes pervade the whole book.	. . .

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