By the middle of the century, men were prompted to disdain the decadent and gaudy colors of the pre-Revolutionary period and wear unrelievedly black frock coats

By the middle of the century, men were prompted to disdain the decadent and gaudy colors of the pre-Revolutionary period and wear unrelievedly black frock coats

This volume engages a fundamental disciplinary question about this period in American history: how did the bourgeoisie consolidate their power and fashion thems

This book studies the making of the bourgeoisie the Baltic Sea region in the nineteenth Century. This region was peripheral in comparison to England and France,

In the first half of the nineteenth century, rural New England society underwent a radical transformation as the traditional household economy gave way to an en