Becoming Bourgeois: Merchant Culture in the South, 1820-1865
(Part of the New Directions in Southern History Series)
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Becoming Bourgeois is the first study to focus on what historians have come to call the "middling sort," the group falling between the mass of yeoman farmers and the planter class that dominated the political economy of the antebellum South. Historian Frank J. Byrne investigates the experiences of urban merchants, village storekeepers, small-scale manufacturers, and their families, as well as the contributions made by this merchant class...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0813192714
ISBN13:9780813192710
Release Date:November 2009
Publisher:University Press of Kentucky
Length:308 Pages
Weight:1.00 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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