Menu
The American bourgeoisie : distinction and identity in the nineteenth century
Enlarge

The American bourgeoisie : distinction and identity in the nineteenth century

Publication Data

Contents

Pt. I. Habits and manners. Goodbye to the marketplace : food and exclusivity in nineteenth-century New York / Anne Mendelson
"Natural distinction" : the American bourgeois search for distinctive signs in Europe / Maureen E. Montgomery
Henry James and the American evolution of the snob / Alide Cagidemetrio
Patina and persistence : miniature patronage and production in antebellum Philadelphia / Anne Verplanck
The "blending and confusion" of expensiveness and beauty : bourgeois interiors / Katherine C. Grier
pt. II. Networks and institutions. Bourgeois institution builders : New York in the nineteenth century / Sven Beckert
The steady supporters of order : American Mechanics' Institute fairs as icons of bourgeois culture / Ethan Robey
A noble pursuit? Bourgeois America's uses of lineage / Francesca Morgan
Elite women and class formation / Mary Rech Rockwell
Rediscovering the bourgeoisie : higher education and governing-class formation in the United States, 1870-1914 / Peter Dobkin Hall
pt. III. The public sphere. Ordering the social sphere : public art and Boston's bourgeoisie / Julia B. Rosenbaum
The Problem of Chicago / Paul DiMaggio
Bourgeois appropriation of music : challenging ethnicity, class, and gender / Michael Broyles
The birth of the American art museum / Alan Wallach
The manufactured patron : staging bourgeois identity through art consumption in postbellum America / John Ott.

Topics

Catalogue Data

ISBD

Buy a copy

OBNB doesn't sell books, but you may be able to find a copy at one of these websites:

The American bourgeoisie : distinction and identity in the nineteenth century. ISBN 9780230102941. Published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.

obnb.uk is a Good Stuff website.