E Digby Baltzell

Philadelphia Gentlemen

The Making of a National Upper Class

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This proper Philadelphia story starts with the city's golden age at the close of the eighteenth century

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 486
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 1989
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 152mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780887387890
• ISBN-10: 0887387896
• Artikelnr.: 21443933

Autorenporträt

Roger L. Geiger

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction to the Transaction EditionPreface to the First Edition1
Introduction 2 The American Metropolitan Upper Class and the Elite 3 The
Philadelphia Upper Class and the Elite in 1940 4 The Structure and Function
of an Upper Class 5 Pre-Civil War First Family Founders 6 Post-Civil War
Family Founders 7 Proper Philadelphia Public Servants, Professionals, and
Men of Letters 8 The Old Family Core of the 1940 Elite 9 Neighborhood and
the Class Structure 10 Religion and the Class Structure 11 Parallel
Upper-Class Structures 12 Education and Status Ascription 13 Social Clubs
and the Class Structure 14 A Primary Group of Prestige and Power 15 Summary
and ConclusionAfterword: The American Aristocrat and Other-DirectionIndex