The monied metropolis New York City and the consolidation of the American bourgeoisie, 1850-1896
"Social classes, like fortunes, are made and remade, and invariably the two are linked. Tracing the shifting fortunes and changing character of New York City's economic elite over half a century, this book brings to light a neglected - and critical - chapter in the social history of the Un...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press
2001.
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| Colección: | CUP ebooks.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b3975814x*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- pt. I. Fortunes, Manners, Politics. 1. Accumulating Capital. 2. Navigating the New Metropolis. 3. The Politics of Capital
- pt. II. Reluctant Revolutionaries. 4. Bourgeois New Yorkers Go to War. 5. The Spoils of Victory. 6. Reconstructing New York
- pt. III. A Bourgeois World. 7. Democracy in the Age of Capital. 8. The Culture of Capital. 9. The Rights of Labor, The Rights of Property. 10. The Power of Capital and the Problem of Legitimacy.
