The Emergence of the Middle Class: Social Experience in the American City, 1760â 1900 (Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Modern History)

Blumin, Stuart Mack

ISBN 10: 0521376122 / ISBN 13: 9780521376129

Published by Cambridge University Press, 1989

The book is complete and readable, with all pages and cover intact. Dust jacket, shrink wrap, or boxed set case may be missing. Pages may have light notes, highlighting, or minor water exposure, but nothing that affects readability. May be an ex-library copy and could include library markings or stickers. Seller Inventory # BSM.ZK89

Synopsis:

This book traces the emergence of the recongnizable 'middle class' from the 1760–1900.

Review: "...[Blumin] approaches a wide range of questions, always ina stimulating manner, with a richness and density of illustration." M.J. Daunton, Journal of Urban History

"Stuart Blumin's book is the most important effort to date to bring the question of middle-class formation into the critical caldron of social change in early 19th-century America in the seaboard cities. The best of his evidence is from Philadelphia, whose social history he has mined with diligence and ingenuity. (There are appropriate comparisons with New York and Boston.)" Daniel T. Rodgers, The New Republic

"Blumin's book is a singular combination of massive synthesis, innovative methodology, and imaginative interpretation....Blumin's conceptualization of class is convincing and technically skillful in its implementation." David A. Gerber, Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography

"Historians have used the category ['middle class'] both to describe and explain social relations, but the criteria for class membership has remained vague. Stuart Blumin makes an admirable intervention into this fuzziness in his extended exploration of different facets of 'increasingly distinctive class experiences' in antebellum cities." Labor History

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Emergence of the Middle Class: Social ...
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: 1989
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: acceptable