Provincial Lives: Middle-Class Experience in the Antebellum Middle West

Timothy R. Mahoney (University of Nebraska, Lincoln)

Provincial Lives: Middle-Class Experience in the Antebellum Middle West
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
28 January 1999
Pages
348
ISBN
9780521640923

Provincial Lives: Middle-Class Experience in the Antebellum Middle West

Timothy R. Mahoney (University of Nebraska, Lincoln)

Provincial Lives tells the story of the development of a regional middle class in the antebellum Middle West. It traces the efforts of waves of Americans to transmit their social structures, behavior, and values to the West and construct a distinctive regional middle-class culture on the urban frontier. Intertwining local, regional, and national history with social, immigration, gender and urban history, Mahoney examines how a succession of settlers from good society–farmers, entrepreneurs, professionals, and genteel men and women from the urban East–interacted with, accommodated, and compromised with those already there to construct a middle-class society.

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