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The Emergence of the Middle Class
Stuart M. Blumin
其他書名
Social Experience in the American City, 1760-1900
出版Cambridge University Press, 1989-09-29
主題History / United States / GeneralHistory / United States / 19th CenturyHistory / Modern / GeneralHistory / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)Social Science / Sociology / GeneralSocial Science / Social Classes & Economic Disparity
ISBN05212507579780521250757
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=kWKXr054rksC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Of all the terms with which Americans define themselves as members of society, few are as elusive as "middle class." This book traces the emergence of a recognizable and self-aware "middle class" between the era of the American Revolution and the end of the nineteenth century. The author focuses on the development of the middle class in larger American cities, particularly Philadelphia and New York. He examines the middle class in all its complexity, and in its day-to-day existence--at work, in the home, and in the shops, markets, theaters, and other institutions of the big city. The book places the new language of class---in particular the new term "middle class"--in the context of the concrete, interwoven experiences of specific anonymous Americans who were neither manual workers nor members of urban upper classes.