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Languages : en
Pages : 1078
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Southern Merchant
Author: Iron Age
Author: American Federationist
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Category : Labor unions
Languages : en
Pages : 792
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A Guide to the Current Periodicals and Serials of the United States and Canada, 1907
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Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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De Bow's Commercial Review of the South & West
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Category : Southern States
Languages : en
Pages : 588
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Northern Editorials on Secession
Author: Howard Cecil PerkinsPublisher:
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Category : Secession
Languages : en
Pages : 628
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A B C Pathfinder Shipping and Mailing Guide ...
Author: New England Railway Publishing CompanyPublisher:
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Category : Postal service
Languages : en
Pages : 992
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Becoming Bourgeois
Author: Frank J. ByrnePublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813138167
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
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 to the South's economy, culture, and politics in the decades before, and the years of, the Civil War. These merchant families embraced the South but were not of the South. At a time when Southerners rarely traveled far from their homes, merchants annually ventured forth on buying junkets to northern cities. Whereas the majority of Southerners enjoyed only limited formal instruction, merchant families often achieved a level of education rivaled only by the upper class -- planters. The southern merchant community also promoted the kind of aggressive business practices that New South proponents would claim as their own in the Reconstruction era and beyond. Along with discussion of these modern approaches to liberal capitalism, Byrne also reveals the peculiar strains of conservative thought that permeated the culture of southern merchants. While maintaining close commercial ties to the North, southern merchants embraced the religious and racial mores of the South. Though they did not rely directly upon slavery for their success, antebellum merchants functioned well within the slave-labor system. When the Civil War erupted, southern merchants simultaneously joined Confederate ranks and prepared to capitalize on the war's business opportunities, regardless of the outcome of the conflict. Throughout Becoming Bourgeois, Byrne highlights the tension between these competing elements of southern merchant culture. By exploring the values and pursuits of this emerging class, Byrne not only offers new insight into southern history but also deepens our understanding of the mutable ties between regional identity and the marketplace in nineteenth-century America.
Merchants Trade Journal
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Category : Department stores
Languages : en
Pages : 926
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N.W. Ayer & Son's American Newspaper Annual and Directory
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Category : American newspapers
Languages : en
Pages : 780
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