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Provincial Lives - Middle-Class Experience in the Antebellum Middle West (Hardcover, New)
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Provincial Lives - Middle-Class Experience in the Antebellum Middle West (Hardcover, New)
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Provincial Lives, first published in 1999, 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, as well as
social, immigration, gender and urban history, the author examines
how a succession of settlers from 'good' society - farmers and
entrepreneurs, followed by capitalists, 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 and culture. Provincial Lives explores
social change through the lived experience of the actors themselves
as they employed their understandings of self, gender, class, and
culture to construct social order and contribute to the development
of a western urban middle class while still remaining members of a
national society and playing a role in shaping the emergence of
middle-class culture across the United States.
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