Class matters : early North America and the Atlantic world /
Although differing in their approaches, the contributors to this collection all agree that class remains indispensable to our understanding of the transition from an early modern to modern era in North America and the Atlantic world.
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Philadelphia :
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| Series: | Early American studies.
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Table of Contents:
- Theorizing class in Glasgow and the Atlantic world / Simon P. Newman
- Stratification and class in eastern native America / Daniel K. Richter
- Subaltern Indians, race, and class in early America / Daniel R. Mandell
- Class struggle in a West Indian plantation society / Natalie Zacek
- Class at an African commercial enclave / Ty M. Reese
- A class struggle in New York? / Simon Middleton
- Middle-class formation in eighteenth-century North America / Konstantin Dierks
- Business friendships and individualism in a mercantile class of citizens in Charleston / Jennifer L. Goloboy
- Corporations and the coalescence of an elite class in Philadelphia / Andrew M. Schocket
- Class, discourse, and industrialization in the new American republic / Lawrence A. Peskin
- Sex and other middle-class pastimes in the life of Ann Carson / Susan Branson
- Leases and the laboring classes in revolutionary America / Thomas J. Humphrey
- Class and capital punishment in early urban North America / Gabriele Gottlieb
- Class stratification and children's work in post-revolutionary urban America / Sharon Braslaw Sundue
- Afterword : constellations of class in early North America and the Atlantic world / Christopher Tomlins.
