ISBN:
9781316724385
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xi, 404 pages)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version
DDC:
305.5/5097709034
Keywords:
Middle class History 19th century
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Middle class ; Middle West ; History ; 19th century
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Middle West ; History ; Civil War, 1861-1865 ; Social aspects
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Middle West ; Social conditions ; 19th century
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Middle West ; Social life and customs ; 19th century
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Electronic books
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Middle West History Civil War, 1861-1865
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Social aspects
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Middle West Social conditions 19th century
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Middle West Social life and customs 19th century
Abstract:
Mahoney examines how the middle class from across the great West were transformed by years of recession and civil war
Abstract:
Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- List of Illustrations and Maps -- Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- Prologue -- Part I Hometown -- Part II Battlefield -- Index -- 1 ''You are Home Folk'': Hometown and the Middle Class -- 2 ''What Will Become of our Town?'': The Rise and Fall of the Booster Ethos, 1856-1860 -- 3 ''Hard . . . and Revolutionary Times'': The Crisis of the Middle Class, 1858-1861
Abstract:
4 ''God Bless the Good Old Town'': Constructing Trans-local Communities in the 1850s -- 5 ''It Is All The Talk In Town'': The Booster Ethos and Struggle for Main Street, 1860-1861 -- 6 ''Almost Sacred and Hallowed'' Ground: Civil War as Spatial Narrative -- 7 ''The Boys of 61'': The Social Order of Company and Regiment -- 8 ''The 'Inner' and 'Outer' Man'': Encountering ''Military Ways and Means'' -- 9 ''Civil War in our Midst'': Waging War at Home and Abroad, 1862-1865
Abstract:
Epilogue ''Scattering to the Four Ends of the Earth'': The ''Old Town'' and the Middle Class -- Lower Main Street and ''Uptown'': The Mercantile Elite -- Upper Main Street: The Bench and Bar and ''Fraternal Democracy'' -- Cultivating Gentility -- Main Street and the Male Subculture -- ''We are a railroad people'' -- ''What is to be Done?'' The Panic of 1857 -- The Scheme: ''Swapping Cats'' -- ''A Bitter Pill'': The End of Local Control -- ''The Mournful Cry of Hard Times'': The Regional Impact
Abstract:
''If Misery Loves Company, I Have Plenty'': The Social Impact of Hard Times -- ''Much discouraged and disheartened'': Redemption and Retrenchment -- ''The Avenues of Power'': Job Seeking in ''Hard Times'' -- Pathbreakers: Constructing a Trans-local Community in the West -- ''Everyone That Can, Should Come to Europe'' -- The ''River War'': Spatial Narratives of the Western Armies -- Maintaining the ''outer'' and ''inner man''
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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