Research Catalog

Title

The Southern middle class in the long nineteenth century [electronic resource] / edited by Jonathan Daniel Wells and Jennifer R. Green.

Publication

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2011.

Details

Additional Authors

• Wells, Jonathan Daniel, 1969-
• Green, Jennifer R., 1970-

Description

1 online resource (xii, 313 p.)

Uniform Title

Southern middle class in the long nineteenth century (Online)

Subjects

• Southern States > Economic conditions > 19th century
• Southern States > Social conditions > 19th century
• Middle class > Southern States > History > 19th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Access (note)

• Access restricted to authorized users.

Contents

The business of justice : merchants in the Charleston Chamber of Commerce and arbitration in the 1780s and 1790s / Sally E. Hadden -- Strangers in the South : Charleston's merchants and middle-class values in the early republic / Jennifer L. Goloboy -- Bonds of marriage and community : social networks and the development of a commercial middle class in antebellum South Carolina / Amanda Reece Mushal -- Middle-class benevolent societies in antebellum Norfolk, Virginia / John G. Deal -- Running Southern manufactories : the antebellum origins of managerial professions / Susanna Delfino -- Three faces of the Southern middle class : the Aikin brothers in the Old Southwest / Angela Lakwete -- Born of the aristocracy? : professionals with planter and middle-class origins in late antebellum South Carolina / Jennifer R. Green -- Navigating "the muddy stream of party politics" : sectional politics and the Southern bourgeoisie / Frank Towers -- The human and financial capital of the Southern middle class, 1850-1900 / Martin Ruef -- Reconstructing the Southern middle class : professional and commercial Southerners after the Civil War / Jonathan Daniel Wells -- Manufacturers and rural culture in the Reconstruction-era upcountry / Bruce W. Eelman -- Of culture and conviction : African American women nonfiction writers and the gendered definitions of class / Sonya Ramsey -- Epilogue : middle-class masters? / James Oakes.

LCCN

2011011949

OCLC

ssj0000641413

Title

The Southern middle class in the long nineteenth century [electronic resource] / edited by Jonathan Daniel Wells and Jennifer R. Green.

Imprint

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2011.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Access

Access restricted to authorized users.

Connect to:

Available from home with a valid library card

Available onsite at NYPL

Added Author

Wells, Jonathan Daniel, 1969-

Green, Jennifer R., 1970-