Class Matters : : Early North America and the Atlantic World /

Class Matters : : Early North America and the Atlantic World / / ed. by Simon Middleton, Billy G. Smith.

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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 t...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package American History
MitwirkendeR:
Branson, Susan,
Dierks, Konstantin,
Goloboy, Jennifer L.,
Gottlieb, Gabriele,
Humphrey, Thomas J.,
Mandell, Daniel R.,
Middleton, Simon,
Newman, Simon P.,
Peskin, Lawrence A.,
Reese, Ty M.,
Richter, Daniel K.,
Schocket, Andrew M.,
Smith, Billy G.,
Sundue, Sharon Braslaw,
Tomlins, Christopher,
Zacek, Natalie,
HerausgeberIn:
Middleton, Simon,
Smith, Billy G.,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011]
©2008
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Early American Studies
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Physical Description:1 online resource (344 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1. Theorizing Class in Glasgow and the Atlantic World
  • 2. Stratification and Class in Eastern Native America
  • 3. Subaltern Indians, Race, and Class in Early America
  • 4. Class Struggle in a West Indian Plantation Society
  • 5. Class at an African Commercial Enclave
  • 6. A Class Struggle in New York?
  • 7. Middle-Class Formation in Eighteenth-Century North America
  • 8. Business Friendships and Individualism in a Mercantile Class of Citizens in Charleston
  • 9. Corporations and the Coalescence of an Elite Class in Philadelphia
  • 10. Class, Discourse, and Industrialization in the New American Republic
  • 11. Sex and Other Middle-Class Pastimes in the Life of Ann Carson
  • 12. Leases and the Laboring Classes in Revolutionary America
  • 13. Class and Capital Punishment in Early Urban North America
  • 14. Class Stratification and Children's Work in Post-Revolutionary Urban America
  • 15. Afterword: Constellations of Class in Early North America and the Atlantic World
  • Notes
  • Contributors
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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