Becoming bourgeois : merchant culture in the South, 1820-1865

The Resource Becoming bourgeois : merchant culture in the South, 1820-1865

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Becoming bourgeois : merchant culture in the South, 1820-1865

Title remainder

merchant culture in the South, 1820-1865

Statement of responsibility

Frank J. Byrne

Language

eng

Summary

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 tho

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N$T

Dewey number

381.0975/09034

Index

index present

LC call number

HF3153

LC item number

.B97 2006eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries
bibliography

Series statement

New directions in southern history

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