Robert D. Johnston (ed.)

The Middling Sorts

Explorations in the History of the American Middle Class
Herausgeber: Bledstein, Burton J; Johnston, Robert D

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Produktbeschreibung

According to our national myth, all Americans are "middle class," but rarely has such a widely-used term been so poorly defined. Do we identify the middle class by a house in the suburbs, a white collar job, or a political outlook that is right-of-center? Or is the middle class in fact more complex? In an effort to bring greater clarity to our understanding of what it means to be middle class, the scholars assembled in "The Middling Sorts" approach the concept as a group of culturally contested ideas, practices, and things. Whether they focus on the antebellum middle class, male corporate culture, or the subtle resistance of Cold War housewives, the contributors - who are among the hottest social and cultural historians of the United States at work today - provide much-needed context to the subject of class in America.

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First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juni 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 155mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 517g
• ISBN-13: 9780415926423
• ISBN-10: 0415926424
• Artikelnr.: 21997713

Autorenporträt

Robert Johnston is Assistant Professor of History at Yale. Burton Bledstein is Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Chicago, and the author of TheCulture of Professionalism.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction, Burton Bledstein. MIDDLING SORTS. The Social Consequences of
American Revolutionary Ideals in the Early Republic, Joyce Appleby. Master
Mechanics and the Market Revolution in the Antebellum North, Bruce Laurie.
MORAL MARKETS. Charitable Calculations: Fancywork, Charity and the Culture
of the Sentimental Market,Elizabeth White. Bringing Up Yankees: The CIvil
War and the Moral Education of Middle Class Children, James Marten.
RELIGIOUS LIFE. Henry Ward Beecher and the Persuasive Power of the Middle
Class, Debby Applegate. Scientific Church Music and the Making of the
American Middle Class, John Kilsdonk. How the Therapeutic Ethos Played in
Peoria, Andrew Reiser. MATERIAL CULTURE. Cartes de Visite Portrait
Photographs and the Culture of Class Formation, Andrea Volpe. Public
Exposure: MIddle-Class Material Culture at the Turn of the Twentieth
Century, Marina Moscowitz. The RIse of the Realtor: Professionalism, Gender
and Middle CLass Identity, Jeffrey Hornstein. BUSINESS CAREERS. Obstacles
to History? Modernization and the Lower-Middle Class in Chicago, 1900-1940,
Andrew Cohen. The Corporate Reconstruction of American Manhood, Clark
Davis. RACE AND COMMUNITY. The Rising Tide of Youth: Chicago's Wonder Books
and the New Black Middle Class, Adam Green. Middle Class Politics in the
Postwar Era, Sylvie Murray. WHY CLASS CONTINUES TO COUNT. Propertied of a
Different Kind: Bourgeoisie and Lower Middle Class in the
Nineteenth-Century United States, Robert Johnston.