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.
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Culture Builders: A Historical Anthropology of Middle Class Life
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Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground: Maryland During the Nineteenth Century (Yale Historical Publications Series)
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Painting Professionals: Women Artists and the Development of Modern American Art, 1870-1930
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