Emergence of the Middle Class - Social Experience in the American City, 1760-1900

Klappentext This book traces the emergence of the recongnizable 'middle class' from the 1760 1900. Zusammenfassung This book traces the emergence of a recognizable and self-aware 'middle class' between the era of the American Revolution and the end of the nineteenth-century. The author focuses on the development of the middle class in larger American cities! particularly Philadelphia and New York. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of tables and figures; Preface; 1. The elusive middle class; 2. 'Middling sorts' in the eighteenth-century city; 3. Toward white collar: nonmanual work in Jacksonian America; 4. Republican prejudice: work, well-being, and social definition; 5. 'Things are in the saddle': consumption, urban space, and the middle-class home; 6. Coming to order: voluntary associations and the organization of social life and consciousness; 7. Experience and consciousness in the antebellum city; 8. White-collar worlds: the postbellum middle class; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Stuart M. Blumin, Stuart Mack Blumin, Stuart Mack (Cornell University Blumin, Blumin Stuart Mack
• Con la collaborazione di: Robert Fogel (Editore), Stephan Thernstrom (Editore)
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 29.09.1989
• EAN: 9780521376129
• ISBN: 978-0-521-37612-9
• Pagine: 452
• Serie: Interdisciplinary Perspectives; Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Modern History
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia dei paesi e delle regioni; USA, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas