The collected works of Sir William Jones

Author(s)

• Jones, William, Sir
• Cannon, Garland Hampton

Bibliographic Information

The collected works of Sir William Jones

edited with an introduction by Garland Cannon

New York University Press, 1993

• : set
• v. 1
• v. 2
• v. 3
• v. 4
• v. 5
• v. 6
• v. 7
• v. 8
• v. 9
• v. 10
• v. 11
• v. 12
• v. 13

Note

Reprint. Originally published: The works of Sir William Jones. London : J. Stockdale, 1807

Description and Table of Contents

Description

In the bustling cities of the mid-nineteenth-century Northeast, young male clerks working in commercial offices and stores were on the make, persistently seeking wealth, respect, and self-gratification. Yet these strivers and "counter jumpers" discovered that claiming the identities of independent men--while making sense of a volatile capitalist economy and fluid urban society--was fraught with uncertainty. In On the Make, Brian P. Luskey illuminates at once the power of the ideology of self-making and the important contests over the meanings of respectability, manhood, and citizenship that helped to determine who clerks were and who they would become. Drawing from a rich array of archival materials, including clerks' diaries, newspapers, credit reports, census data, advice literature, and fiction, Luskey argues that a better understanding of clerks and clerking helps make sense of the culture of capitalism and the society it shaped in this pivotal era.

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• NCID: BA88246428
• ISBN:
  • 0814741991
  • 0814742009
  • 0814742025
  • 0814742033
  • 0814742041
  • 081474205X
  • 0814742068
  • 0814742076
  • 0814742084
  • 0814742092
  • 0814742106
  • 0814742114
  • 0814742122
• LCCN: 93003862
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: 13 v.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PJ64.J6
  • DC20 : 410
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Linguistics
  • LCSH : Oriental philology
  • LCSH : Jones, William, Sir, 1746-1794
  • LCSH : Asianists -- Great Britain -- Biography
  • LCSH : Philologists -- Great Britain -- Biography