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On the make : clerks and the quest for capital in nineteenth-century America /
In the bustling cities of the mid-nineteenth century Northeast, young male clerks working in commercial offices and stores were on the make, persistently seeking wealth, respect, and self-gratification. Yet these strivers and "counter jumpers" discovered that claiming the identities of ind...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press,
©2010.
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| Colección: | American history and culture (New York University Press)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: puzzled about identity
- What is my prospects?
- The humble laborer in the white collar
- Homo counter-jumperii
- Striving for citizenship
- The republic of broadcloth
- The Swedish Nightingale and the peeping Tom
- Conclusion: once more, free.