The American bourgeoisie : distinction and identity in the nineteenth century /

The American bourgeoisie : distinction and identity in the nineteenth century / [edited by] Sven Beckert and Julia B. Rosenbaum.

What precisely constitutes an American bourgeoisie? Scholars have grappled with the question for a long time. Economic positions - the ownership of capital, for instance - most obviously defines this group. Control of resources cannot explain, however, the emergence of shared identities or the capac...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Other Authors: Beckert, Sven (Editor), Rosenbaum, Julia B. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Palgrave studies in cultural and intellectual history.
Subjects:
Middle class > United States > History > 19th century.
Middle class.
United States.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • PART I
  • Goodbye to the Marketplace: Food and Exclusivity in Nineteenth/Century New York / Anne Mendelson
  • 'Natural Distinction': The American Bourgeois Search for Distinctive Signs in Europe / Maureen E. Montgomery
  • Henry James and the American Evolution of the Snob / Alide Cagidemetrio
  • Patina and Persistence: Miniature Patronage and Production in Antebellum Philadelphia / Anne Verplanck
  • The "Blending and Confusion" of Expensiveness and Beauty: Bourgeois Interiors / Katherine Grier
  • PART II
  • Institution/Building and Class Formation: How the Nineteenth/Century Bourgeoisie Organized / Sven Beckert
  • The Steady Supporters of Order: American Mechanics' Institute Fairs as Icons of Bourgeois Culture / Ethan Robey
  • A Noble Pursuit? The Embourgeoisement of Genealogy, and Genealogy's Making of the Bourgeoisie / Francesca Morgan
  • Elite Women and Class Formation / Mary Rech Rockwell
  • Rediscovering the Bourgeoisie: Higher Education and Governing Class Formation in the United States, 1870-1914 / Peter Dobkin Hall
  • PART III
  • Public Sculpture and Bourgeois Self Image / Julia Rosenbaum
  • Class Authority and Cultural Entrepreneurship: The Problem of Chicago / Paul DiMaggio
  • Bourgeois Appropriation of Music: Challenging Ethnicity, Class, and Gender / Michael Broyles
  • The Birth of the American Art Museum / Alan Wallach
  • The Manufactured Patron: Staging Bourgeois Identity through Art Consumption in Postbellum America / John Ott.

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