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Consumerism and the Emergence of the Middle Class in Colonial America
Christina J. Hodge
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hardcover. This study examines the emergence of the middle class and consumerism in colonial America. Num Pages: 224 pages, 47 b/w illus. 3 maps 13 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JD; 3JF; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 184 x 257 x 18. Weight in Grams: 770.
This interdisciplinary study presents compelling evidence for a revolutionary idea: that to understand the historical entrenchment of gentility in America, we must understand its creation among non-elite people: colonial middling sorts who laid the groundwork for the later American middle class. Focusing on the daily life of Widow Elizabeth Pratt, a shopkeeper from early eighteenth-century Newport, Rhode Island, Christina J. Hodge uses material remains as a means of reconstructing not only how Mrs Pratt lived, but also how these objects reflect shifting class and gender relationships in this period. Challenging the 'emulation thesis', a common assumption that wealthy elites led ... Read more
This interdisciplinary study presents compelling evidence for a revolutionary idea: that to understand the historical entrenchment of gentility in America, we must understand its creation among non-elite people: colonial middling sorts who laid the groundwork for the later American middle class. Focusing on the daily life of Widow Elizabeth Pratt, a shopkeeper from early eighteenth-century Newport, Rhode Island, Christina J. Hodge uses material remains as a means of reconstructing not only how Mrs Pratt lived, but also how these objects reflect shifting class and gender relationships in this period. Challenging the 'emulation thesis', a common assumption that wealthy elites led ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107034396
SKU
V9781107034396
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99-14
About Christina J. Hodge
Christina J. Hodge is Coordinator for Academic Partnerships at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University. She teaches in Museum Studies and Anthropology for the Harvard Extension School and Harvard Summer School, and she has lectured on anthropology at Harvard University as part of the Harvard Yard Archaeology Project. As a scholar-practitioner, she regularly publishes and presents on ... Read more
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