Class matters : early North America and the Atlantic world / edited by Simon Middleton and Billy G. Smith.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Middleton, Simon (Simon David)

Smith, Billy G. (Billy Gordon)

Series:

Early American studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social stratification--North America.

Social stratification.

Social classes--North America.

Social classes.

Social conditions.

North America--Social conditions.

North America.

North America--Economic conditions.

Economic conditions.

Physical Description:

viii, 328 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2008]

Contents:

Theorizing class in Glasgow and the Atlantic world / Simon P. Newman

Stratification and class in eastern native America / Daniel K. Richter

Subaltern Indians, race, and class in early America / Daniel R. Mandell

Class struggle in a West Indian plantation society / Natalie Zacek

Class at an African commercial enclave / Ty M. Reese

A class struggle in New York? / Simon Middleton

Middle-class formation in eighteenth-century North America / Konstantin Dierks

Business friendships and individualism in a mercantile class of citizens in Charleston / Jennifer L. Goloboy

Corporations and the coalescence of an elite class in Philadelphia / Andrew M. Schocket

Class, discourse, and industrialization in the new American republic / Lawrence A. Peskin

Sex and other middle-class pastimes in the life of Ann Carson / Susan Branson

Leases and the laboring classes in revolutionary America / Thomas J. Humphrey

Class and capital punishment in early urban North America / Gabriele Gottlieb

Class stratification and children's work in post-revolutionary urban America / Sharon Braslaw Sundue

Afterword : constellations of class in early North America and the Atlantic world / Christopher Tomlins.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [235]-313) and index.

ISBN:

9780812240634

0812240634

OCLC:

183261743