Research Catalog

Title

The middling sorts : explorations in the history of the American middle class / edited by Burton J. Bledstein and Robert D. Johnston.

Publication

New York : Routledge, 2001.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bledstein, Burton J.
• Johnston, Robert D.

Description

vii, 368 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subjects

• Middle class > United States > History > 20th century
• Middle class > United States > History > 19th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction : Storytellers to the middle class / Burton J. Bledstein -- The social consequences of American revolutionary ideals in the early Republic / Joyce Appleby -- "We are not afraid to work" : master mechanics and the market, revolution in the antebellum North / Bruce Laurie -- Charitable calculations : fancywork, charity, and the culture of the sentimental market, 1830-1880 / Elizabeth Alice White -- Bringing up Yankees : the Civil War and the moral education of middle-class children / James Marten -- Henry Ward Beecher and the "great middle class" : mass-marketed intimacy and middle-class identity / Debby Applegate -- Scientific church music and the making of the American middle class / Edward James Kilsdonk -- Secularization reconsidered : Chautauqua and the de-christianization of middle-class authority, 1880-1920 / Andrew Chamberlin Rieser -- Cartes de visite portrait photographs and the culture of class formation / Andrea Volpe -- Public exposure : middle-class material culture at the turn of the twentieth century / Marina Moskowitz -- Obstacles to history? Modernization and the lower middle class in Chicago, 1900-1940 / Andrew Wender Cohen -- The corporate reconstruction of middle-class manhood / Clark Davis -- The rise of the Realtor® : professionalism, gender, and middle-class identity, 1908-1950 / Jeffrey M. Hornstein -- The rising tide of youth : Chicago's wonder books and the "new" black middle class / Adam Green -- The limits of democracy in the suburbs : constructing the middle class through redsidential exclusion / Theresa Mah -- Rethinking middle-class populism and politics in the postwar era : community activism in Queens / Sylvie Murray -- Propertied of a different kind : bourgeoisie and lower middle classes in the nineteenth-century United States / Sven Beckert -- Conclusion : Historians and the American middle class / Robert D. Johnston.

Call Number

IDS 01-12419

ISBN

• 0415926416 (alk. paper)
• 0415926424 (pbk.)

LCCN

00044639

OCLC

44413569

Title

The middling sorts : explorations in the history of the American middle class / edited by Burton J. Bledstein and Robert D. Johnston.

Imprint

New York : Routledge, 2001.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Bledstein, Burton J.

Johnston, Robert D.

Research Call Number

IDS 01-12419