| Description |
1 online resource (x, 297 pages). |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
New directions in southern history
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New directions in southern history.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-288) and index. |
| Contents |
Merchant culture and the political economy of the old South -- The antebellum merchant in southern society -- The merchant family in the antebellum South -- Secession, merchant-soldiers and the Civil War, 1860-1863 -- Merchants and their families in the Confederacy, 1861-1863 -- The merchant family and the fall of the Confederacy, 1864-1865 -- Conclusion: merchant culture in the slave south and beyond. |
| Summary |
Becoming Bourgeois is the first study to focus on what historians have come to call the "middling sort," the economic group falling between yeoman farmers and the planter class that dominated the antebellum South. At a time when Southerners rarely traveled far from their homes, these merchants annually ventured forth on buying junkets to northern cities. The southern merchant community promoted the kind of aggressive business practices that proponents of the "New South" would later claim as their own. Frank J. Byrne reveals the peculiar strains of modern liberal-capitalist and conservative tho. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Merchants -- Southern States -- History.
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Merchants. |
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Southern States. |
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History. |
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Southern States -- Social conditions -- History.
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Social conditions. |
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Southern States -- Economic conditions -- History.
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Economic conditions. |
| Chronological Term |
1820-1865 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Byrne, Frank J., 1968- Becoming bourgeois. Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, ©2006 0813124042 (DLC) 2006019967 (OCoLC)70149279 |
| ISBN |
0813171458 (electronic book) |
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9780813171456 (electronic book) |
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0813124042 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9780813124049 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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