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

Other author Middleton, Simon (Simon David)
Other author Smith, Billy G. (Billy Gordon)
Format Book
Publication InfoPhiladelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2008.
Descriptionviii, 328 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesEarly American studies
Early American studies. ^A375699
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [235]-313) and index.
LCCN 2008007804
ISBN9780812240634 (alk. paper)
ISBN0812240634 (alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks HM 821 .C583 2008 ✔ Available Place Hold