Middle-Class Providence, 1820-1940 / / John S. Gilkeson.
This book inquires into what Americans mean when they call the United States a middle-class nation and why the vast majority of Americans identify themselves as middle class.Originally published in 1986.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available p...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1986 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (392 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. The Stable, Industrious, Sober Middle Classes of Society
- 2. Middle-Class Culture in the Process of Formation
- 3. Capital and Labor
- 4. The Club Idea
- 5. Corporate Greed and Partisan Exigency
- 6. Substitutes for the Saloon
- 7. Individualism Run Rampant
- 8. Consumers Organize
- 9. The Middle Classes on the Eve of the Second World War
- Bibliographical Essay
- Index
- Backmatter