Merchant Culture in the South, 1820-1865
by
Frank J. Byrne
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2006
Becoming Bourgeois is the first study to focus on what historians have come to call the "middling sort," the group falling between the mass of yeoman farmers and the planter class that dominated the political economy of the antebellum South. Historian Frank J. Byrne investigates the experiences...