THE EMERGENCE OF THE MIDDLE CLASS by Stuart Mack Blumin, Robert Fogel, Stephan Thernstrom ( 9780521376129 )

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Title:

THE EMERGENCE OF THE MIDDLE CLASS
SOCIAL EXPERIENCE IN THE AMERICAN CITY, 1760-1900

By:

Stuart Mack Blumin, Robert Fogel, Stephan Thernstrom

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ISBN 10:

0521376122

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9780521376129

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Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

29 September, 1989

Series:

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Modern History

Pages:

452

Description:

This book traces the emergence of the recongnizable 'middle class' from the 1760-1900.

Synopsis:

Of all the terms that Americans define themselves as members of society, few are as elusive as 'middle class'. This book traces the emergence of a recognizable and self-aware 'middle class' between the era of the American Revolution and the end of the nineteenth century. The author focuses on the development of the middle class in larger American cities, particularly Philadelphia and New York. He examines the middle class in all its complexity, and in its day-to-day existence - at work, in the home, and in the shops, markets, theaters, and other institutions of the big city. The book places the distinct language of class - in particular the term 'middle class' - in the context of the concrete, interwoven experiences of specific anonymous Americans who were neither manual workers nor members of urban upper classes.

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41 half-tones, 8 tables, bibliography, index

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Cambridge University Press

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