Class Matters: Early North America and the Atlantic World

Book Overview

As a category of historical analysis, class is dead--or so it has been reported over the past two decades. The contributors to Class Matters contest this demise. Although differing in their approaches, they all agree that socioeconomic inequality remains indispensable to a true understanding of the transition from the early modern to modern era in North America and the rest of the Atlantic world. As a whole, they chart the emergence of class...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812221230
• ISBN13: 9780812221237
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"