| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
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| Title Information: |
distinction and identity in the nineteenth century |
| Alternative Intellectual Responsibility: |
BeckertSven, 1965- |
| Alternative Intellectual Responsibility: |
RosenbaumJulia B., |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
Palgrave Connect (Online service) |
| Place of Publication: |
New York |
| Published: |
Palgrave Macmillan; |
| Year of Publication: |
2010 |
| Edition: |
1st ed. |
| Description: |
1 online resource (ix, 284 p.)ill. : |
| Series: |
Palgrave studies in cultural and intellectual history |
| Subject: |
Middle class - History - United States - 19th century. - |
| Online resource: |
http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230115569An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| Notes: |
Description based on print version record. |
| Summary: |
What precisely constitutes an American bourgeoisie? Scholars have grappled with the question for a long time. Economic positions - the ownership of capital, for instance - most obviously defines this group. Control of resources cannot explain, however, the emergence of shared identities or the capacity for collective action: after all, economic interests frequently drove capital/rich Americans apart as they competed for markets or governmental favors. This book argues that one of the most important factors in this respect was the articulation of a shared culture, but this aspect has been neglected by most scholarship on the issue. This volume engages a fundamental disciplinary question about this period in American history: how did the bourgeoisie consolidate their power and fashion themselves not simply as economic leaders but as cultural innovators and arbiters? How did culture help them formulate a sense of themselves as a distinct social group with shared identities, while simultaneously setting themselves apart from other Americans? |
| ISBN: |
9780230115569electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
023011556Xelectronic bk. |
| Content Note: |
PART I Goodbye to the Marketplace: Food and Exclusivity in Nineteenth/Century New York / Anne Mendelson 'Natural Distinction': The American Bourgeois Search for Distinctive Signs in Europe / Maureen E. Montgomery Henry James and the American Evolution of the Snob / Alide Cagidemetrio Patina and Persistence: Miniature Patronage and Production in Antebellum Philadelphia / Anne Verplanck The "Blending and Confusion" of Expensiveness and Beauty: Bourgeois Interiors / Katherine Grier PART II Institution/Building and Class Formation: How the Nineteenth/Century Bourgeoisie Organized / Sven Beckert The Steady Supporters of Order: American Mechanics' Institute Fairs as Icons of Bourgeois Culture / Ethan Robey A Noble Pursuit? The Embourgeoisement of Genealogy, and Genealogy's Making of the Bourgeoisie / Francesca Morgan Elite Women and Class Formation / Mary Rech Rockwell Rediscovering the Bourgeoisie: Higher Education and Governing Class Formation in the United States, 1870-1914 / Peter Dobkin Hall PART III Public Sculpture and Bourgeois Self Image / Julia Rosenbaum Class Authority and Cultural Entrepreneurship: The Problem of Chicago / Paul DiMaggio Bourgeois Appropriation of Music: Challenging Ethnicity, Class, and Gender / Michael Broyles The Birth of the American Art Museum / Alan Wallach The Manufactured Patron: Staging Bourgeois Identity through Art Consumption in Postbellum America / John Ott. |