The American Bourgeoisie [electronic resource] : Distinction and Identity in the Nineteenth Century /
Rosenbaum, J.editor.
Beckert, S.editor.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: 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.
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.
United States—History.
History, Modern.
America—History.
Civilization—History.
Social history.
US History.
Modern History.
History of the Americas.
Cultural History.
Social History.