Class Matters : Early North America and the Atlantic World.

Class Matters : Early North America and the Atlantic World.

As a category of historical analysis, class is dead-or so it has been reported over the past two decades. The contributors to Class Matters contest this demise. Although differing in their approaches, they all agree that socioeconomic inequality remains indispensable to a true understanding of the t...

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Main Author: Middleton, Simon
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011.
Subjects:
Social stratification > North America.
Social classes > North America.
Economic history
Social classes
Social conditions
Social stratification
North America > Social conditions.
North America > Economic conditions.
North America
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction / Middleton, Simon / Smith, Billy G.
  • 1. Theorizing Class in Glasgow and the Atlantic World / Newman, Simon P.
  • 2. Stratification and Class in Eastern Native America / Richter, Daniel K.
  • 3. Subaltern Indians, Race, and Class in Early America / Mandell, Daniel R.
  • 4. Class Struggle in a West Indian Plantation Society / Zacek, Natalie
  • 5. Class at an African Commercial Enclave / Reese, Ty M.
  • 6. A Class Struggle in New York? / Middleton, Simon
  • 7. Middle-Class Formation in Eighteenth-Century North America / Dierks, Konstantin
  • 8. Business Friendships and Individualism in a Mercantile Class of Citizens in Charleston / Goloboy, Jennifer L.
  • 9. Corporations and the Coalescence of an Elite Class in Philadelphia / Schocket, Andrew M.
  • 10. Class, Discourse, and Industrialization in the New American Republic / Peskin, Lawrence A.
  • 11. Sex and Other Middle-Class Pastimes in the Life of Ann Carson / Branson, Susan
  • 12. Leases and the Laboring Classes in Revolutionary America / Humphrey, Thomas J.
  • 13. Class and Capital Punishment in Early Urban North America / Gottlieb, Gabriele
  • 14. Class Stratification and Children's Work in Post-Revolutionary Urban America / Sundue, Sharon Braslaw
  • 15. Afterword: Constellations of Class in Early North America and the Atlantic World / Tomlins, Christopher
  • Notes
  • Contributors
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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