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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 :
NYU Press,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments; Introduction: Puzzled about Identity; 1 What Is My Prospects?; 2 The Humble Laborer in the White Collar; 3 Homo Counter-Jumperii; 4 Striving for Citizenship; 5 The Republic of Broadcloth; 6 The Swedish Nightingale and the Peeping Tom; Conclusion: Once More, Free; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Z; About the Author.