دانلود کتاب The American Bourgeoisie: Distinction and Identity in the Nineteenth Century (Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History)

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Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Images......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Introduction......Page 12
Part I: Habits and Manners......Page 20
1 Goodbye to the Marketplace: Food and Exclusivity in Nineteenth-Century New York......Page 22
2 "Natural Distinction": The American Bourgeois Search for Distinctive Signs in Europe......Page 38
3 Henry James and the American Evolution of the Snob......Page 56
4 Patina and Persistence: Miniature Patronage and Production in Antebellum Philadelphia......Page 74
5 The "Blending and Confusion" of Expensiveness and Beauty: Bourgeois Interiors......Page 98
Part II: Networks and Institutions......Page 112
6 Bourgeois Institution Builders: New York in the Nineteenth Century......Page 114
7 The Steady Supporters of Order: American Mechanics' Institute Fairs as Icons of Bourgeois Culture......Page 130
8 A Noble Pursuit?: Bourgeois America's Uses of Lineage......Page 146
9 Elite Women and Class Formation......Page 164
10 Rediscovering the Bourgeoisie: Higher Education and Governing-Class Formation in the United States, 1870–1914......Page 178
Part III: The Public Sphere......Page 202
11 Ordering the Social Sphere: Public Art and Boston's Bourgeoisie......Page 204
12 The Problem of Chicago......Page 220
13 Bourgeois Appropriation of Music: Challenging Ethnicity, Class, and Gender......Page 244
14 The Birth of the American Art Museum......Page 258
15 The Manufactured Patron: Staging Bourgeois Identity through Art Consumption in Postbellum America......Page 268
List of Contributors......Page 288
Index......Page 290