The American Bourgeoisie: Distinction and Identity in the Nineteenth Century

This volume engages a fundamental disciplinary question about this period in American history: how did the bourgeoisie consolidate their power and fashion themselves not simply as economic leaders but as cultural innovators and arbiters? It also explains how culture helped Americans form both a sense of shared identity and a sense of difference.

Author: J. Rosenbaum
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 01/19/2011
Pages: 284
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.19lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780230102941

About the Author
JULIA ROSENBAUM is Assistant Professor of Art History at Bard College, USA. SVEN BECKERT is Professor of History at Harvard, USA.