This volume engages a fundamental disciplinary question about this period in American history: how did the bourgeoisie consolidate their power and fashion thems

This volume engages a fundamental disciplinary question about this period in American history: how did the bourgeoisie consolidate their power and fashion thems

This book, first published in 2001, is a comprehensive history of nineteenth-century New York City's powerful economic elite.

The first global history of the middle class While the nineteenth century has been described as the golden age of the European bourgeoisie, the emergence of the