Becoming bourgeois : merchant culture in the South, 1820-1865 / Frank J. Byrne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Byrne, Frank J., 1968-

Series:

New directions in southern history.

New directions in southern history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Merchants--Southern States--History.

Merchants.

Southern States--Social conditions.

Southern States.

Southern States--Economic conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (308 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c2006.

Language Note:

English

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 conservat

Contents:

Merchant culture and the political economy of the old South

The antebellum merchant in southern society

The merchant family in the antebellum South

Secession, merchant-soldiers and the Civil War, 1860-1863

Merchants and their families in the Confederacy, 1861-1863

The merchant family and the fall of the Confederacy, 1864-1865

Conclusion: merchant culture in the slave south and beyond.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-288) and index.

ISBN:

0-8131-9271-4

0-8131-3485-4

1-283-23264-2

9786613232649

0-8131-7145-8

OCLC:

77013358