Middle-Class Providence, 1820-1940 /
This book inquires into what Americans mean when they call the United States a middle-class nation and why the vast majority of Americans identify themselves as middle class. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available...
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[1986]
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. The Stable, Industrious, Sober Middle Classes of Society
- 2. Middle-Class Culture in the Process of Formation
- 3. Capital and Labor
- 4. The Club Idea
- 5. Corporate Greed and Partisan Exigency
- 6. Substitutes for the Saloon
- 7. Individualism Run Rampant
- 8. Consumers Organize
- 9. The Middle Classes on the Eve of the Second World War
- Bibliographical Essay
- Index
- Backmatter.