Class matters
Subtitle: early North America and the Atlantic world
By: edited by Simon Middleton and Billy G. Smith.
Contributors: Middleton, Simon; Smith, Billy G.
Series: Early American studies
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780812240634
Subjects: Social stratification -- North America; Social classes -- North America; North America -- Social conditions; North America -- Economic conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Theorizing class in Glasgow and the Atlantic world / Simon P. Newman; title: Stratification and class in eastern native America / Daniel K. Richter; title: Subaltern Indians, race, and class in early America / Daniel R. Mandell; title: Class struggle in a West Indian plantation society / Natalie Zacek; title: Class at an African commercial enclave / Ty M. Reese; title: A class struggle in New York? / Simon Middleton; title: Middle-class formation in eighteenth-century North America / Konstantin Dierks; title: Business friendships and individualism in a mercantile class of citizens in Charleston / Jennifer L. Goloboy; title: Corporations and the coalescence of an elite class in Philadelphia / Andrew M. Schocket; title: Class, discourse, and industrialization in the new American republic / Lawrence A. Peskin; title: Sex and other middle-class pastimes in the life of Ann Carson / Susan Branson; title: Leases and the laboring classes in revolutionary America / Thomas J. Humphrey; title: Class and capital punishment in early urban North America / Gabriele Gottlieb; title: Class stratification and children's work in post-revolutionary urban America / Sharon Braslaw Sundue; title: Afterword : constellations of class in early North America and the Atlantic world / Christopher Tomlins.