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The origins of the southern middle class, 1800-1861 /
Jonathan Daniel Wells contests the popular idea that the Old South was a region of essentially two classes (planters and slaves) until after the Civil War. He argues that, in fact, the region had a burgeoning white middle class that had a profound impact on southern culture, the debate over slavery,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
©2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments; Prologue. The Symbolism of National Unity: The New England Society of Charleston; Introduction; PART ONE: Cradle of the Southern Middle Class: Cultural Connections between the Antebellum North and South; PART TWO: The Making of the Southern Middle Class; PART THREE: The American Middle Classes and the Crisis of the Union; Conclusion. The New South and the Triumph of the Southern Middle Class; Epilogue. The New England Society and the New South Creed; Appendix. Commercial and Professional Occupations Based on the 1850 and 1860 U.S. Census Categories; Notes.