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The Emergence of the Middle Class: Social Experience in the American City, 1760 1900

The Emergence of the Middle Class: Social Experience in the American City, 1760 1900

Blumin, Stuart M.
Fogel, Robert
Thernstrom, Stephan

Paperback

Series: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Modern History

General SociologyGeneral United States History

ISBN10: 0521376122
ISBN13: 9780521376129
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Sep 29 1989
Pages: 452
Weight: 1.29
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.02 Depth: 8.93
Language: English
Of all the terms with which Americans define themselves as members of society, few are as elusive as middle class. This book traces the emergence of a recognizable and self-aware middle class between the era of the American Revolution and the end of the nineteenth century. The author focuses on the development of the middle class in larger American cities, particularly Philadelphia and New York. He examines the middle class in all its complexity, and in its day-to-day existence--at work, in the home, and in the shops, markets, theaters, and other institutions of the big city. The book places the new language of class---in particular the new term middle class--in the context of the concrete, interwoven experiences of specific anonymous Americans who were neither manual workers nor members of urban upper classes.

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