{"product_id":"the-southern-middle-class-in-the-long-nineteenth-century-hardback-9780807138519","title":"The Southern Middle Class in the Long Nineteenth Century (Hardback) 9780807138519","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Southern Middle Class in the Long Nineteenth Century\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJonathan Daniel Wells (Edited by), Jennifer R. Green (Edited by), Susanna Delfino (Contributions by), Angela Lakwete (Contributions by), Martin Reuf (Contributions by), Don H. Doyle (Contributions by), Sally Hadden (Contributions by), Sonya Ramsey (Contributions by), Jennie Goloboy (Contributions by), Bruce W. Eelman (Contributions by), Amanda R. Mushal (Contributions by), Frank Towers (Contributions by), James Oakes (Contributions by), John G. Deal (Contributions by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780807138519\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 12 December 2011\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e328 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.1 x 15.4 x 2.5 cm, 0.544 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eJonathan Daniel Wells and Jennifer R. Green provide a series of provocative essays reflecting innovative, original research on professional and commercial interests in the nineteenth-century South, a place often seen as being composed of just two classes -- planters and slaves. Rather, an active middle class, made up of men and women devoted to the cultural and economic modernization of Dixie, worked with each other -- and occasionally their northern counterparts -- to bring reforms to the region.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith a balance of established and younger authors, of antebellum and postbellum analyses, and of narrative and quantitative methodologies, these essays offer new ways to think about politics, society, gender, and culture during this exciting era of southern history. The contributors show that many like-minded southerners sought to create a \"\"New South\"\" with a society similar to that of the North. They supported the creation of public schools and an end to dueling, but less progressive reform was also endorsed, such as building factories using slave labor rather than white wage earners. \u003cem\u003eThe Southern Middle Class in the Long Nineteenth Century\u003c\/em\u003e significantly influences thought on the social structure of the South, the centrality of class in history, and the events prior to and after the Civil War.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"LSU Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52551760347416,"sku":"9780807138519","price":34.58,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-southern-middle-class-in-the-long-nineteenth-century-hardback-9780807138519","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}