Emerson's Emergence
Cayton, Mary Kupiec![Emerson's Emergence](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/164/1649184/CHSBZCOP031649184.jpg)
Drawing on the work of the last twenty years in New England social history, Mary Cayton argues that Ralph Waldo Emerson's work and career, when seen in the context of the momentous changes in the culture and economics of the region, reveal many of the tensions and contradictions inherent in the new capitalist social order.