| Description |
viii, 328 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Early American studies
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Early American studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-313) and index. |
| Contents |
Theorizing class in Glasgow and the Atlantic world / Simon P. Newman -- Stratification and class in eastern native America / Daniel K. Richter -- Subaltern Indians, race, and class in early America / Daniel R. Mandell -- Class struggle in a West Indian plantation society / Natalie Zacek -- Class at an African commercial enclave / Ty M. Reese -- A class struggle in New York? / Simon Middleton -- Middle-class formation in eighteenth-century North America / Konstantin Dierks -- Business friendships and individualism in a mercantile class of citizens in Charleston / Jennifer L. Goloboy -- Corporations and the coalescence of an elite class in Philadelphia / Andrew M. Schocket -- Class, discourse, and industrialization in the new American republic / Lawrence A. Peskin -- Sex and other middle-class pastimes in the life of Ann Carson / Susan Branson -- Leases and the laboring classes in revolutionary America / Thomas J. Humphrey -- Class and capital punishment in early urban North America / Gabriele Gottlieb -- Class stratification and children's work in post-revolutionary urban America / Sharon Braslaw Sundue -- Afterword : constellations of class in early North America and the Atlantic world / Christopher Tomlins. |
| Subject |
Social stratification -- North America.
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Social stratification. |
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North America. |
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Social classes -- North America.
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Social classes. |
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North America -- Social conditions.
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Social conditions. |
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North America -- Economic conditions.
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Economic conditions. |
| Added Author |
Middleton, Simon (Simon David)
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Smith, Billy G. (Billy Gordon)
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| ISBN |
9780812240634 alkaline paper |
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0812240634 alkaline paper |
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