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The American bourgeoisie : distinction and identity in the nineteenth century

[NT 42944] Record Type:	[NT 8598] Electronic resources : [NT 40817] monographic
[NT 47348] Title Information:	distinction and identity in the nineteenth century
[NT 47353] Alternative Intellectual Responsibility:	BeckertSven, 1965-
[NT 47353] Alternative Intellectual Responsibility:	RosenbaumJulia B.,
[NT 47356] Secondary Intellectual Responsibility:	Palgrave Connect (Online service)
[NT 47351] Place of Publication:	New York
[NT 47263] Published:	Palgrave Macmillan;
[NT 47352] Year of Publication:	2010
[NT 50960] Edition:	1st ed.
[NT 47264] Description:	1 online resource (ix, 284 p.)ill. :
[NT 47298] Series:	Palgrave studies in cultural and intellectual history
[NT 47266] Subject:	Middle class - History - United States - 19th century. -
[NT 51458] Online resource:	http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230115569An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information
[NT 47265] Notes:	Description based on print version record.
[NT 51398] 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?
[NT 50961] ISBN:	9780230115569electronic bk.
[NT 50961] ISBN:	023011556Xelectronic bk.
[NT 60779] 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.

The American bourgeoisie : distinction and identity in the nineteenth century
The American bourgeoisie : distinction and identity in the nineteenth century / [edited by] Sven Beckert and Julia B. Rosenbaum. - 1st ed.. - New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. - 1 online resource (ix, 284 p.) ; ill.. - (Palgrave studies in cultural and intellectual history).
PART I.
Description based on print version record..
Includes bibliographical references and index..
ISBN 9780230115569ISBN 023011556X
Middle class -- History -- United States -- 19th century.

Beckert, Sven

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