The American bourgeoisie: distinction and identity in the nineteenth century

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 sharedidentity and a sense of difference. JULIA ROSENBAUM is Assistant Professor of Art History at Bard College, USA. SVEN BECKERT is Professor of History at Harvard, USA. INDICE: 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 Jamesand 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 - 'BourgeoisAppropriation 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

• ISBN: 978-0-230-10294-1
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 294
• Fecha Publicación: 19/01/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Desconocido