UID:
almafu_9958352438502883
Format:
1 online resource (344 pages) :
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illustrations.
Edition:
Electronic reproduction. Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Edition:
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ISBN:
9780812205565
Series Statement:
Early American Studies
Content:
Although differing in their approaches, the contributors to this collection all agree that class remains indispensable to our understanding of the transition from an early modern to modern era in North America and the Atlantic world.
Note:
Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Introduction /
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1. Theorizing Class in Glasgow and the Atlantic World /
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2. Stratification and Class in Eastern Native America /
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3. Subaltern Indians, Race, and Class in Early America /
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4. Class Struggle in a West Indian Plantation Society /
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5. Class at an African Commercial Enclave /
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6. A Class Struggle in New York? /
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7. Middle-Class Formation in Eighteenth-Century North America /
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8. Business Friendships and Individualism in a Mercantile Class of Citizens in Charleston /
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9. Corporations and the Coalescence of an Elite Class in Philadelphia /
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10. Class, Discourse, and Industrialization in the New American Republic /
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11. Sex and Other Middle-Class Pastimes in the Life of Ann Carson /
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12. Leases and the Laboring Classes in Revolutionary America /
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13. Class and Capital Punishment in Early Urban North America /
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14. Class Stratification and Children’s Work in Post-Revolutionary Urban America /
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15. Afterword: Constellations of Class in Early North America and the Atlantic World /
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Notes --
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Contributors --
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Index --
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Acknowledgments.
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In English.
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
DOI:
10.9783/9780812205565
URL:
https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812205565
