Provincial Lives tells the story of the development of a regional middle class in the antebellum Middle West. It traces the efforts of waves of Americans to transmit their social structures, behavior, and values to the West and construct a distinctive regional middle-class culture on the urban frontier. Intertwining local, regional, and national history with social, immigration, gender and urban history, Mahoney examines how a succession of settlers from "good" society--farmers, entrepreneurs, professionals, and "genteel" men and women from the urban East--interacted with, accommodated, and compromised with those already there to construct a middle-class society.
Book Details
- Country: US
- Published: 1999-01-28
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Language: English
- Pages: 334
Categories:History / United States / 19th CenturyHistory / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)History / Modern / GeneralHistory / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)History / Social HistorySocial Science / Customs & TraditionsSocial Science / Sociology / GeneralSocial Science / Social Classes & Economic Disparity - Available Formats:
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