The American Bourgeoisie

The American Bourgeoisie
Author: J. Rosenbaum
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 663
Release: 2010-12-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 023011556X

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.