The American Bourgeoisie: Distinction and Identity in the Nineteenth Century
This volume engages a fundamental disciplinary question about this period in American history: how did the bourgeoisie consolidate their power and fashion themselves not simply as economic leaders but as cultural innovators and arbiters? It also explains how culture helped Americans form both a sens...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York
Palgrave Macmillan US
2010, 2010
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| Series: | Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | This volume engages a fundamental disciplinary question about this period in American history: how did the bourgeoisie consolidate their power and fashion themselves not simply as economic leaders but as cultural innovators and arbiters? It also explains how culture helped Americans form both a sense of shared identity and a sense of difference |
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| Physical Description: | 294 p online resource |
| ISBN: | 9780230115569 |