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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN-10
0230102948
ISBN-13
9780230102941
eBay Product ID (ePID)
108433339
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
IX, 284 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
American Bourgeoisie : Distinction and Identity in the Nineteenth Century
Publication Year
2011
Subject
Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Sociology / General, Economic Conditions, Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), Modern / General, United States / General
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Social Science, Business & Economics, History
Series
Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
19.2 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2010-023204
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"The American Bourgeoisie, with its richly nuanced case studies-ranging from food to geneology; education to music-gives a new cultural dimension to our understanding of class formation in the late nineteenth century. This book tells the story of how social, expressive, and institutional practices transformed raw economic resources into class identities that largely trumped occupational, ethnic, regional, and political loyalties. It reveals class formation to be fluid and contingent upon social, material, and ritual enactments evolving in tandem with shifts in capital. With its distinguished roster of contributors, this volume offers a vital new resource for cultural and social history, material culture, art history, and literary studies."-Angela Miller, Professor of Art History and Archaeology, Washington University "After three decades of intensive research on the European bourgeoisie, here comes the much-needed American counterpart. As in the European case, culture has gained center stage as a field of social demarcation and identification."-Ute Frevert, Director, Max Planck Institute for Human Development "As these lively and perceptive essays demonstrate, nineteenth-century Americans of wealth devoted enormous energy to developing manners and building cultural institutions that distinguished them from common people in an ostensibly democratic society. How wealthy men and women dined, traveled, displayed art, decorated their houses, identified their ancestors, and established museums, concert halls, and alumni associations all spoke to an aspiration to refine capital and establish the legitimacy of the power associated with it. These essays bring the process of class formation alive with satisfying attention to its material and cultural dimensions."-Elizabeth Blackmar, Professor of History, Columbia University "This is a wide-ranging collection of essays on aspects of elite American culture in the nineteenth century. One of its distinguishing features is the genuinely interdisciplinary character of its contributors. The cumulative picture they draw of the ways in which these economic elites drew closer together as the century wore on, the institutions of exclusion and self-definition they constructed, and the lasting patronage of the high arts on which they fashioned a part of their claims to worth and status is broad and coherent. For those interested in the origins of the cultural institutions that this group was so prolific in founding, in particular, this is a valuable collection."-Daniel T. Rodgers, Henry Charles Lea Professor of History, Princeton University, "The American Bourgeoisie, with its richly nuanced case studiesranging from food to geneology; education to musicgives a new cultural dimension to our understanding of class formation in the late nineteenth century. This book tells the story of how social, expressive, and institutional practices transformed raw economic resources into class identities that largely trumped occupational, ethnic, regional, and political loyalties. It reveals class formation to be fluid and contingent upon social, material, and ritual enactments evolving in tandem with shifts in capital. With its distinguished roster of contributors, this volume offers a vital new resource for cultural and social history, material culture, art history, and literary studies."Angela Miller, Professor of Art History and Archaeology, Washington University "After three decades of intensive research on the European bourgeoisie, here comes the much-needed American counterpart. As in the European case, culture has gained center stage as a field of social demarcation and identification."Ute Frevert, Director, Max Planck Institute for Human Development "As these lively and perceptive essays demonstrate, nineteenth-century Americans of wealth devoted enormous energy to developing manners and building cultural institutions that distinguished them from common people in an ostensibly democratic society. How wealthy men and women dined, traveled, displayed art, decorated their houses, identified their ancestors, and established museums, concert halls, and alumni associations all spoke to an aspiration to refine capital and establish the legitimacy of the power associated with it. These essays bring the process of class formation alive with satisfying attention to its material and cultural dimensions."Elizabeth Blackmar, Professor of History, Columbia University "This is a wide-ranging collection of essays on aspects of elite American culture in the nineteenth century. One of its distinguishing features is the genuinely interdisciplinary character of its contributors. The cumulative picture they draw of the ways in which these economic elites drew closer together as the century wore on, the institutions of exclusion and self-definition they constructed, and the lasting patronage of the high arts on which they fashioned a part of their claims to worth and status is broad and coherent. For those interested in the origins of the cultural institutions that this group was so prolific in founding, in particular, this is a valuable collection."Daniel T. Rodgers, Henry Charles Lea Professor of History, Princeton University
TitleLeading
The
Number of Volumes
1 vol.
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
305.5/5097309034
Table Of Content
PART I Goodbye to the Marketplace: Food and Exclusivity in Nineteenth-Century New York; A.Mendelson 'Natural Distinction': The American Bourgeois Search for Distinctive Signs in Europe; M.E.Montgomery Henry James and the American Evolution of the Snob; A.Cagidemetrio Patina and Persistence: Miniature Patronage and Production in Antebellum Philadelphia; A.Verplanck The 'Blending and Confusion' of Expensiveness and Beauty: Bourgeois Interiors; K.Grier PART II Institution-Building and Class Formation: How the Nineteenth-Century Bourgeoisie Organized; S.Beckert The Steady Supporters of Order: American Mechanics' Institute Fairs as Icons of Bourgeois Culture; E.Robey A Noble Pursuit? The Embourgeoisement of Genealogy, and Genealogy's Making of the Bourgeoisie; F.Morgan Elite Women and Class Formation; M.Rech Rockwell Rediscovering the Bourgeoisie: Higher Education and Governing Class Formation in the United States, 1870-1914; P.Dobkin Hall PART III Public Sculpture and Bourgeois Self Image; J.Rosenbaum Class Authority and Cultural Entrepreneurship: The Problem of Chicago; P.DiMaggio Bourgeois Appropriation of Music: Challenging Ethnicity, Class, and Gender; M.Broyles The Birth of the American Art Museum; A.Wallach The Manufactured Patron: Staging Bourgeois Identity through Art Consumption in Postbellum America; J.Ott
Synopsis
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., 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 innovaters and arbiters? It also explains how culture helped Americans form both a sense of shared identity and a sense of difference., What precisely constitutes an American bourgeoisie? Scholars have grappled with the question for a long time. Economic positions-the ownership of capital, for instance-most obviously define this group but cannot explain the emergence of shared identities or the capacity for collective action: after all, economic interests frequently drove capital-rich Americans apart as they competed for markets or governmental favors. Engaging fundamental questions about American society in the nineteenth century, this book argues that one of the most important factors in the self-definition of the bourgeoisie was its articulation of a shared culture.
LC Classification Number
E171-183.9
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