Karen Halttunen draws a vivid picture of the social and cultural development of the upwardly mobile middle class, basing her study on a survey of the conduct manuals and fashion magazines of mid-nineteenth-century America.
An ingenious book: original, inventive, resourceful, and exciting.
Harvard University Press
The Village of Cannibals: Rage and Murder in France, 1870 (Studies in Cultural History)
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Elliott Currie
The Road to Whatever: Middle-Class Culture and the Crisis of Adolescence
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