The American bourgeoisie : distinction and identity in the nineteenth century
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The American bourgeoisie : distinction and identity in the nineteenth century
（Palgrave studies in cultural and intellectual history）
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
1st ed
- : hardback
- :pbk
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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? It also explains how culture helped Americans form both a sense of shared identity and a sense of difference.
Table of Contents
- PART I Goodbye to the Marketplace: Food and Exclusivity in Nineteenth-Century New York
- A.Mendelson 'Natural Distinction': The American Bourgeois Search for Distinctive Signs in Europe
- M.E.Montgomery Henry James and the American Evolution of the Snob
- A.Cagidemetrio Patina and Persistence: Miniature Patronage and Production in Antebellum Philadelphia
- A.Verplanck The 'Blending and Confusion' of Expensiveness and Beauty: Bourgeois Interiors
- K.Grier PART II Institution-Building and Class Formation: How the Nineteenth-Century Bourgeoisie Organized
- S.Beckert The Steady Supporters of Order: American Mechanics' Institute Fairs as Icons of Bourgeois Culture
- E.Robey A Noble Pursuit? The Embourgeoisement of Genealogy, and Genealogy's Making of the Bourgeoisie
- F.Morgan Elite Women and Class Formation
- M.Rech Rockwell Rediscovering the Bourgeoisie: Higher Education and Governing Class Formation in the United States, 1870-1914
- P.Dobkin Hall PART III Public Sculpture and Bourgeois Self Image
- J.Rosenbaum Class Authority and Cultural Entrepreneurship: The Problem of Chicago
- P.DiMaggio Bourgeois Appropriation of Music: Challenging Ethnicity, Class, and Gender
- M.Broyles The Birth of the American Art Museum
- A.Wallach The Manufactured Patron: Staging Bourgeois Identity through Art Consumption in Postbellum America
- J.Ott
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