... American Revolution, the Antifederalists of the 1780s and 1790s, and the Jeffersonian Democratic Republicans. More directly, it arose out of the profound social and economic changes of the early nineteenth century. Recent historians have analyzed these changes in terms of a market revolution. In the Northeast and Old Northwest, rapid transportation improvements and immigration hastened the collapse of an older ... republican assumptions remained strong, especially in the seaboard states, mandating that government be left to a natural aristocracy of virtuous, propertied gentlemen. Simulta...

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... in capitalist society and more specifically the centralization of the American music publishing business and songwriters in an area of New York known as Tin Pan Alley in the late-nineteenth century. The Tin Pan Alley era initially specialized in ballads and novelty songs but later began to incorporate popular styles of the period, including ragtime, jazz, and blues. Significant technological innovations ... listener are, according to Adorno, escapism and diversion: "Listeners are distracted from the demands of reality by entertainment which does not demand attention either" (310). Durin...

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Until the incorporation of public school education in the nineteenth century, home schooling was seen as the predominant method of instruction for children of every economic, social, and cultural stratum. With the introduction of child labor laws and the onset of ... ...

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