Confidence Men and Painted Women
Subtitle: A Study of Middle-class Culture in America, 1830-1870 (Yale Historical Publications)
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: September 10, 1986
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780300037883
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Cultural studies; Social classes; c 1800 to c 1900; Social History; Sociology; History: American; USA; General; Social Science / General; 19th century; History; Hypocrisy; Middle class; Moral conditions; Social values; United States
First sentence: During the first half of the nineteenth century, unprecedented numbers of young men were leaving their rural homes and families to seek work in the booming cities of industrializing America.