i had the same experience as @davidimarcus, in my understanding of us history there was a before and an after reading this book….even if i found parts of it hard going like the religion chapter early on…..i would like to go back to that chapter and try to actually understand it
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Yeah, "What Hath God Wrought" tries to displace robust idea of a Market Revolution with a more anemic communications/transportation revolution.
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i wouldn't dismiss the centrality and profoundness of the communications/transportation aspect of the story — in fact, there is a sense in which "the growth of the market" is an abstraction/mystification whose real content is "the growth of communications and transport" — along,
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Yeah, my tweet was too dismissive -- I do like (and have frequently praised) Howe's book. But I think the move to communications/transportation is characteristic of 1990s, early 2000s when he wrote the book.
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it reads weird now imo, almost presntist to the early 00's with how much it emphasizes it. not to say it's not a useful lens to view things, but i doubt he'd write it the same way now.
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Howe didn't get this lens from the academic zeitgeist of the 2000s, he got it from the zeitgeist of the 1830s. The historical figures he was writing about were the ones who put so much stress on comm/transp linking once-isolated ppls as the motor of history
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Replying to @SethAckerman @HeerJeet and
sure but he chose the emphasize the people who were, it's not as though everyone saw it that way at the time and it certainly reads to me as one of the reasons he emphasized that is because the intellectual milieu he wrote in was also talking about the same thing.
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Having gone through it recently I'd agree. Howe often draws implicit parallels between USA of 1815-1848 with USA of Bush/Clinton/Bush
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