Becoming Bourgeois: Merchant Culture in the South, 1820-1865

by Frank J. Byrne

Book Overview

Becoming Bourgeois is the first study to focus on what historians have come to call the "middling sort," the group falling between the mass of yeoman farmers and the planter class that dominated the political economy of the antebellum South. Historian Frank J. Byrne investigates the experiences of urban merchants, village storekeepers, small-scale manufacturers, and their families, as well as the contributions made by this merchant class...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813192714
• ISBN13: 9780813192710
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"