The American Bourgeoisie

Distinction and Identity in the Nineteenth Century
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-349-28751-2
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 284 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 376 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History

This volume engages a fundamental disciplinary question about this period in American history: how did the bourgeoisie consolidate their power and fashion themselves not simply as economic leaders but as cultural innovators and arbiters? It also explains how culture helped Americans form both a sense of shared identity and a sense of difference.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Beckert, S.

Rosenbaum, J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte: Ereignisse und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte Regionalgeschichte der USA: Einzelne Staaten, Städte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART I Goodbye to the Marketplace: Food and Exclusivity in Nineteenth-Century New York; A.Mendelson 'Natural Distinction': The American Bourgeois Search for Distinctive Signs in Europe; M.E.Montgomery Henry James and the American Evolution of the Snob; A.Cagidemetrio Patina and Persistence: Miniature Patronage and Production in Antebellum Philadelphia; A.Verplanck The 'Blending and Confusion' of Expensiveness and Beauty: Bourgeois Interiors; K.Grier PART II Institution-Building and Class Formation: How the Nineteenth-Century Bourgeoisie Organized; S.Beckert The Steady Supporters of Order: American Mechanics' Institute Fairs as Icons of Bourgeois Culture; E.Robey A Noble Pursuit? The Embourgeoisement of Genealogy, and Genealogy's Making of the Bourgeoisie; F.Morgan Elite Women and Class Formation; M.Rech Rockwell Rediscovering the Bourgeoisie: Higher Education and Governing Class Formation in the United States, 1870-1914; P.Dobkin Hall PART III Public Sculpture and Bourgeois Self Image; J.Rosenbaum Class Authority and Cultural Entrepreneurship: The Problem of Chicago; P.DiMaggio Bourgeois Appropriation of Music: Challenging Ethnicity, Class, and Gender; M.Broyles The Birth of the American Art Museum; A.Wallach The Manufactured Patron: Staging Bourgeois Identity through Art Consumption in Postbellum America; J.Ott

Über Autor(innen)

JULIA ROSENBAUM is Assistant Professor of Art History at Bard College, USA.   SVEN BECKERT is Professor of History at Harvard, USA.