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Becoming bourgeois : merchant culture in the South, 1820-1865 /

Becoming Bourgeois is the first study to focus on what historians have come to call the "middling sort," the economic group falling between yeoman farmers and the planter class that dominated the antebellum South. At a time when Southerners rarely traveled far from their homes, these merch...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Byrne, Frank J., 1968-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, ©2006.
Colección:New directions in southern history.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Becoming Bourgeois is the first study to focus on what historians have come to call the "middling sort," the economic group falling between yeoman farmers and the planter class that dominated the antebellum South. At a time when Southerners rarely traveled far from their homes, these merchants annually ventured forth on buying junkets to northern cities. The southern merchant community promoted the kind of aggressive business practices that proponents of the "New South" would later claim as their own. Frank J. Byrne reveals the peculiar strains of modern liberal-capitalist and conservative tho.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (x, 297 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-288) and index.
ISBN:0813171458
9780813171456