Class Matters
Title | Class Matters PDF eBook |
Author | Simon Middleton |
Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 2011-06-03 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780812205565 |
As a category of historical analysis, class is dead—or so it has been reported over the past two decades. The contributors to Class Matters contest this demise. Although differing in their approaches, they all agree that socioeconomic inequality remains indispensable to a true understanding of the transition from the early modern to modern era in North America and the rest of the Atlantic world. As a whole, they chart the emergence of class as a concept and its subsequent loss of analytic purchase in Anglo-American historiography. The opening section considers the dynamics of class relations in the Atlantic world across the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries—from Iroquoian and Algonquian communities in North America to tobacco lords in Glasgow. Subsequent chapters examine the cultural development of a new and aspirational middle class and its relationship to changing economic conditions and the articulation of corporate and industrial ideologies in the era of the American Revolution and beyond. A final section shifts the focus to the poor and vulnerable—tenant farmers, infant paupers, and the victims of capital punishment. In each case the authors describe how elite Americans exercised their political and social power to structure the lives and deaths of weaker members of their communities. An impassioned afterword urges class historians to take up the legacies of historical materialism. Engaging the difficulties and range of meanings of class, the essays in Class Matters seek to energize the study of social relations in the Atlantic world.
Charleston and the Emergence of Middle-class Culture in the Revolutionary Era
Title | Charleston and the Emergence of Middle-class Culture in the Revolutionary Era PDF eBook |
Author | Jennifer L. Goloboy |
Publisher | University of Georgia Press |
Pages | 213 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0820349968 |
"Very humble servants": colonial merchants and the limits of middle-class power -- The revolution, John Wilkes, and middle-class mob rule -- City of knavery: trade before the War of 1812 -- Friendship and sympathy, family and stability -- The War of 1812 and commercial disaster -- Mercantile professionalism and Charleston as a cotton port
Miller's Planters' & Merchants' Almanac, for the Year of Our Lord 1829
Title | Miller's Planters' & Merchants' Almanac, for the Year of Our Lord 1829 PDF eBook |
Author | Joshua Sharp |
Publisher | |
Pages | 48 |
Release | 1828 |
Genre | |
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A Checklist of American Imprints for 1820-1829
Title | A Checklist of American Imprints for 1820-1829 PDF eBook |
Author | Richard H. Shoemaker |
Publisher | |
Pages | 392 |
Release | 1971 |
Genre | United States |
ISBN |
Orangeburgh District, 1768-1868
Title | Orangeburgh District, 1768-1868 PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Marchant Culler |
Publisher | Reprint Company Publishers |
Pages | 804 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Focuses primarily between the Revolutionary and Confederate Wars and on the sections that later became Orangeburg and Calhoun counties.
A Checklist of American Imprints for ...
Title | A Checklist of American Imprints for ... PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 390 |
Release | 1971 |
Genre | United States |
ISBN |
American History
Title | American History PDF eBook |
Author | Harvard University. Library |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1000 |
Release | 1967 |
Genre | United States |
ISBN |