Class Matters: Early North America and the Atlantic World PDF
Preview Class Matters: Early North America and the Atlantic World
9657 - Class Matters 12/7/07 3:28 PM Page i Class Matters 9657 - Class Matters 12/7/07 3:28 PM Page ii early american studies Daniel K.Richter and Kathleen M.Brown,Series Editors Exploring neglected aspects ofour colonial,revolutionary,and early national history and culture,Early American Studies reinterprets familiar themes and events in fresh ways.Interdisciplinary in character,and with a special emphasis on the period from about 1600to 1850,the series is published in partnership with the McNeil Center for Early American Studies. A complete list ofbooks in the series is available from the publisher. 9657 - Class Matters 12/7/07 3:28 PM Page iii Class Matters Early North America and the Atlantic World Edited by Simon Middleton and Billy G. Smith University ofPennsylvania Press Philadelphia 9657 - Class Matters 12/7/07 3:28 PM Page iv Copyright © 2008University ofPennsylvania Press All rights reserved.Except for briefquotations used for purposes ofreview or scholarly citation,none ofthis book may be reproduced in any form by any means without written permission from the publisher. Published by University ofPennsylvania Press Philadelphia,Pennsylvania 19104-4112 Printed in the United States ofAmerica on acid-free paper 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 A Cataloging-in-Publication record is available from the Library ofCongress ISBN 978-0-8122-4063-4 9657 - Class Matters 12/7/07 3:28 PM Page v To Sage for her sixteenth and Michelle for her sixtieth To Carolyn, and for Gerald Sider, who got me started on class 9657 - Class Matters 12/7/07 3:28 PM Page vi 9657 - Class Matters 12/7/07 3:28 PM Page vii Contents Introduction 1 Simon Middleton and Billy G.Smith 1 Theorizing Class in Glasgow and the Atlantic World 16 Simon P.Newman 2 Stratification and Class in Eastern Native America 35 Daniel K.Richter 3 Subaltern Indians,Race,and Class in Early America 49 Daniel R.Mandell 4 Class Struggle in a West Indian Plantation Society 62 Natalie Zacek 5 Class at an African Commercial Enclave 76 Ty M.Reese 6 A Class Struggle in New York? 88 Simon Middleton 7 Middle-Class Formation in Eighteenth-Century North America 99 Konstantin Dierks 8 Business Friendships and Individualism in a Mercantile Class ofCitizens in Charleston 109 Jennifer L.Goloboy 9 Corporations and the Coalescence ofan Elite Class in Philadelphia 123 Andrew M.Schocket 9657 - Class Matters 12/7/07 3:28 PM Page viii viii Contents 10 Class,Discourse,and Industrialization in the New American Republic 138 Lawrence A.Peskin 11 Sex and Other Middle-Class Pastimes in the Life ofAnn Carson 156 Susan Branson 12 Leases and the Laboring Classes in Revolutionary America 168 Thomas J.Humphrey 13 Class and Capital Punishment in Early Urban North America 185 Gabriele Gottlieb 14 Class Stratification and Children’s Work in Post-Revolutionary Urban America 198 Sharon Braslaw Sundue 15 Afterword:Constellations ofClass in Early North America and the Atlantic World 213 Christopher Tomlins Notes 235 List ofContributors 315 Index 319 Acknowledgments 327 9657 - Class Matters 12/7/07 3:28 PM Page ix Ofall the hokum with which this country [the United States] is riddled,the most odd is the common notion that it is free ofclass distinctions. —W.Somerset Maugham Though the conditions ofmankind are various,they may with propriety be included under three denominations—the rich,the middling class,and the poor. —“An American”(Pennsylvania Gazette,December 24,1794) The fears ofone class ofmen are not the measure ofthe rights ofanother. —George Bancroft
The list of books you might like
