The American Bourgeoisie: Distinction and Identity in the Nineteenth Century - Hardcover

by J. Rosenbaum (Editor), S. Beckert (Editor)

This volume engages a fundamental disciplinary question about this period in American history: how did the bourgeoisie consolidate their power and fashion themselves not simply as economic leaders but as cultural innovators and arbiters? It also explains how culture helped Americans form both a sense of shared identity and a sense of difference.

Author Biography

JULIA ROSENBAUM is Assistant Professor of Art History at Bard College, USA. SVEN BECKERT is Professor of History at Harvard, USA.