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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington, Ky. :
University Press of Kentucky,
©2006.
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| Colección: | New directions in southern history.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Merchant culture and the political economy of the old South
- The antebellum merchant in southern society
- The merchant family in the antebellum South
- Secession, merchant-soldiers and the Civil War, 1860-1863
- Merchants and their families in the Confederacy, 1861-1863
- The merchant family and the fall of the Confederacy, 1864-1865
- Conclusion: merchant culture in the slave south and beyond.