Provincial Lives
Middle-Class Experience in the Antebellum Middle West
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ISBN-13:
9780521025430
Veröffentl:
2006
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
18.02.2006
Seiten:
348
Autor:
Timothy R. Mahoney
Gewicht:
529 g
Format:
234x156x19 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Provincial Lives tells the story of the development of a regional middle class in the antebellum Middle West. It traces the efforts of waves of Americans to transmit their social structures, behavior, and values to the West and construct a distinctive regional middle-class culture on the urban frontier. Intertwining local, regional, and national history with social, immigration, gender and urban history, Mahoney examines how a succession of settlers from "good" society--farmers, entrepreneurs, professionals, and "genteel" men and women from the urban East--interacted with, accommodated, and compromised with those already there to construct a middle-class society.
Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The structure of provincial society: Native American, French, and American interaction in the Upper Mississippi River Valley; 2. Family migration and social development on a 'Near Frontier'; 3. 'A Common Band of Brotherhood': migration, male subcultures, the booster ethos, and the origins of urban middle class; 4. The gentility system in the West; 5. 'Brethren of the bar': professional culture among lawyers and the regional process of elite aggregation; 6. Boosters and railroad men: constructing a regional society; Epilogue; Appendices; Notes; Selected bibliography; Index.
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