Jonathan Daniel Wells and Jennifer R. Green provide a series of
provocative essays reflecting innovative, original research on
professional and commercial interests in the nineteenth-century
South, a place often seen as being composed of just two classes --
planters and slaves. Rather, an active middle class, made up of men
and women devoted to the cultural and economic modernization of
Dixie, worked with each other -- and occasionally their northern
counterparts -- to bring reforms to the region.
With a balance of established and younger authors, of antebellum
and postbellum analyses, and of narrative and quantitative
methodologies, these essays offer new ways to think about politics,
society, gender, and culture during this exciting era of southern
history. The contributors show that many like-minded southerners
sought to create a "New South" with a society similar to that of
the North. They supported the creation of public schools and an end
to dueling, but less progressive reform was also endorsed, such as
building factories using slave labor rather than white wage
earners. The Southern Middle Class in the Long Nineteenth Century
significantly influences thought on the social structure of the
South, the centrality of class in history, and the events prior to
and after the Civil War.
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