Format:
1 Online-Ressource (343 p)
ISBN:
9780812221237
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
Content:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Theorizing Class in Glasgow and the Atlantic World -- Chapter 2. Stratification and Class in Eastern Native America -- Chapter 3. Subaltern Indians, Race, and Class in Early America -- Chapter 4. Class Struggle in a West Indian Plantation Society -- Chapter 5. Class at an African Commercial Enclave -- Chapter 6. A Class Struggle in New York? -- Chapter 7. Middle-Class Formation in Eighteenth-Century North America
Content:
Chapter 8. Business Friendships and Individualism in a Mercantile Class of Citizens in Charleston -- Chapter 9. Corporations and the Coalescence of an Elite Class in Philadelphia -- Chapter 10. Class, Discourse, and Industrialization in the New American Republic -- Chapter 11. Sex and Other Middle-Class Pastimes in the Life of Ann Carson -- Chapter 12. Leases and the Laboring Classes in Revolutionary America -- Chapter 13. Class and Capital Punishment in Early UrbanNorth America -- Chapter 14. Class Stratification and Children's Work in Post-Revolutionary Urban America
Content:
Chapter 15. Afterword: Constellations of Class in Early North America and the Atlantic World -- Notes -- List of Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780812205565
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780812221237
Additional Edition:
Print version Middleton, Simon Class Matters : Early North America and the Atlantic World Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.,c2011 ISBN 9780812221237
Language:
English
Keywords:
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