Roger L. Geiger

Philadelphia Gentlemen

The Making of a National Upper Class

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 488
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. September 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 851g
• ISBN-13: 9781138529793
• ISBN-10: 1138529796
• Artikelnr.: 50494781

Autorenporträt

Roger L. Geiger

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction to the Transaction Edition
Preface to the First Edition
1 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 Conclusion
Afterword: The American Aristocrat and Other-Direction
Index