The Origins of the Southern Middle Class, 1800-1861Univ of North Carolina Press, 2004 - 321 страница With a fresh take on social dynamics in the antebellum South, Jonathan Daniel Wells contests the popular idea that the Old South was a region of essentially two classes (planters and slaves) until after the Civil War. He argues that, in fact, the region h |
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Cradle of The Southern Middle Class Cullural Conneclions between the Antebellum North And South | 17 |
Travel and Migralion between the North and the South | 19 |
Southern Interest in Northern Intellectual Culture | 41 |
The Making of the Southern Middle Class | 67 |
Religion Dueling and Honor | 69 |
Voluntary Associations and Intellectual Culture | 89 |
Women Families and Gender Roles | 111 |
Education Reform | 133 |
The Origins of a New South | 155 |
The Formation of the Southern Middle Class | 179 |
The Northern and Southern Middle Classes and the Coming of the Civil War | 207 |
The New England Society and the New South Creed | 235 |
Commercial and Professional Occupations Based on the 1850 and 1860 US Census Categories | 239 |
Notes | 241 |
Bibliography | 275 |
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