Part I: Traditional Culture 1. Questions of Cultural Transformation 2. Blustering Brags: Processes of Recognition in Traditional Culture 3. Tradition in Motion: The Changing World of Others Part II: Cultural Failure 4. Citizens and Anti-Citizens: The Early Working Men 5. The General Strike of 1835: The Rise and Fall of the Trades Union 6. An Epidemic of Hallucination: Delirium Tremens and Cultural Failure Part III: Cultural Transformation 7. Comic Substance: Blackface Minstrelsy During the 1830's 8.

The Experience Speech: Washingtonian Temperance in Philadelphia 9. The Rioting Body: Violent Fire Companies, Identity, and Trauma 10. Festivals of Racial Suffering: The Blackface Bands 11. Moving Quickly: Early Permutations of the New Culture Bibliography Index.