The Southern middle class in the long nineteenth century
By: edited by Jonathan Daniel Wells and Jennifer R. Green
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
ISBN-13: 9780807138519; 9780807138526; 9780807138533; 9780807138540
Subjects: Social conditions; Middle class; Economic conditions; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The business of justice : merchants in the Charleston Chamber of Commerce and arbitration in the 1780s and 1790s / Sally E. Hadden; title: Strangers in the South : Charleston's merchants and middle-class values in the early republic / Jennifer L. Goloboy; title: Bonds of marriage and community : social networks and the development of a commercial middle class in antebellum South Carolina / Amanda Reece Mushal; title: Middle-class benevolent societies in antebellum Norfolk, Virginia / John G. Deal; title: Running Southern manufactories : the antebellum origins of managerial professions / Susanna Delfino; title: Three faces of the Southern middle class : the Aikin brothers in the Old Southwest / Angela Lakwete; title: Born of the aristocracy? : professionals with planter and middle-class origins in late antebellum South Carolina / Jennifer R. Green; title: Navigating "the muddy stream of party politics" : sectional politics and the Southern bourgeoisie / Frank Towers; title: The human and financial capital of the Southern middle class, 1850-1900 / Martin Ruef; title: Reconstructing the Southern middle class : professional and commercial Southerners after the Civil War / Jonathan Daniel Wells; title: Manufacturers and rural culture in the Reconstruction-era upcountry / Bruce W. Eelman; title: Of culture and conviction : African American women nonfiction writers and the gendered definitions of class / Sonya Ramsey; title: Epilogue : middle-class masters? / James Oakes.