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Becoming Bourgeois: Merchant Culture in the South, 1820-1865 (New Directions In Southern History)
Frank J. Byrne
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Description for Becoming Bourgeois: Merchant Culture in the South, 1820-1865 (New Directions In Southern History)
Hardcover. Focuses 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. This book reveals the peculiar strains of modern liberal-capitalist and conservative thought that permeated the culture of southern merchants. Series: New Directions in Southern History. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; 3JH; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 567.
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 thought that permeated the culture of southern merchants. ... Read more
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 thought that permeated the culture of southern merchants. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University Press of Kentucky
Condition
New
Series
New Directions in Southern History
Number of Pages
308
Place of Publication
Lexington, United States
ISBN
9780813124049
SKU
V9780813124049
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About Frank J. Byrne
Frank J. Byrne is assistant professor of history at the State University of New York at Oswego.
Reviews for Becoming Bourgeois: Merchant Culture in the South, 1820-1865 (New Directions In Southern History)
By carefully examining the world of southern merchants... Byrne challenges a historiography that is too determined to define white southern society either in terms of conservative paternalism or liberal capitalism. - John Majewski, UC Santa Barbara