Becoming Bourgeois

Merchant Culture in the South, 1820-1865

Frank J Byrne (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

308 Seiten

2009
The University Press of Kentucky (Verlag)
978-0-8131-9271-0 (ISBN)

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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 thought that permeated the culture of southern merchants. By exploring the values men and women in merchant families espoused, Byrne not only offers new insight into southern history but also deepens our understanding of the mutable ties between regional identity and the marketplace in nineteenth-century America.

Frank J. Byrne is associate professor of history at the State University of New York at Oswego.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	11.11.2009
Verlagsort	Lexington
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Mikroökonomie
ISBN-10	0-8131-9271-4 / 0813192714
ISBN-13	978-0-8131-9271-0 / 9780813192710
Zustand	Neuware