Stuart M. Blumin

The Emergence of the Middle Class

Social Experience in the American City, 1760 1900
Herausgeber: Fogel, Robert; Thernstrom, Stephan

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book traces the emergence of the recongnizable 'middle class' from the 1760 1900.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 452
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. März 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 729g
• ISBN-13: 9780521376129
• ISBN-10: 0521376122
• Artikelnr.: 21528477

Inhaltsangabe

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.