Provincial Lives
Subtitle: Middle-Class Experience in the Antebellum Middle West
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: March 30, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780521025430
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Social History; Social classes; c 1800 to c 1900; United States - Antebellum Era; History: American; History; History - U.S.; North Central & Mid-West states; Western & Pacific Coast states; United States - State & Local - Midwest; History / United States / 19th Century; History / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI); History-Social History; History-United States - Antebellum Era; Middle class--Middle West--History--19th cent; Middle class--Middle West--History--19th century; United States - 19th Century; 19th century; Middle West; Middle class; Social conditions; Social life and customs
First sentence: The origins of the urban middle-class American society that developed across the Middle West during the antebellum period lie in the efforts of French entrepreneurs of St. Louis to acquire wealth from the vast hinterland north and west of St. Louis.