The Emergence of the Middle Class: Social Experience in the American City, 1760-1900

Thomas F. Armstrong · Stuart Μ. Blumin

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List of tables and figures Preface 1. The elusive middle class 2. 'Middling sorts' in the eighteenth-century city 3. Toward white collar: nonmanual work in Jacksonian America 4. Republican prejudice: work, well-being, and social definition 5. 'Things are in the saddle': consumption, urban space, and the middle-class home 6. Coming to order: voluntary associations and the organization of social life and consciousness 7. Experience and consciousness in the antebellum city 8. White-collar worlds: the postbellum middle class Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index.

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