02943nam 2200649 a 450 991082787190332120240514045432.00-8131-3485-41-283-23264-297866132326490-8131-7145-8(CKB)1000000000467660(EBL)792199(OCoLC)77013358(SSID)ssj0000109605(PQKBManifestationID)11129604(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000109605(PQKBWorkID)10059244(PQKB)11538092(StDuBDS)EDZ0000038477(MdBmJHUP)muse13794(Au-PeEL)EBL792199(CaPaEBR)ebr10495317(CaONFJC)MIL323264(MiAaPQ)EBC792199(EXLCZ)99100000000046766020060619d2006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBecoming bourgeois merchant culture in the South, 1820-1865 /Frank J. Byrne1st ed.Lexington, Ky. University Press of Kentuckyc20061 online resource (308 p.)New directions in southern historyDescription based upon print version of record.0-8131-3816-7 0-8131-2404-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-288) and index.Merchant culture and the political economy of the old South -- The antebellum merchant in southern society -- The merchant family in the antebellum South -- Secession, merchant-soldiers and the Civil War, 1860-1863 -- Merchants and their families in the Confederacy, 1861-1863 -- The merchant family and the fall of the Confederacy, 1864-1865 -- Conclusion: merchant culture in the slave south and beyond.Becoming Bourgeois is the first study to focus on what historians have come to call the ""middling sort,"" the economic group falling between yeoman farmers and the planter class that dominated the antebellum South. At a time when Southerners rarely traveled far from their homes, these merchants annually ventured forth on buying junkets to northern cities. The southern merchant community promoted the kind of aggressive business practices that proponents of the ""New South"" would later claim as their own. Frank J. Byrne reveals the peculiar strains of modern liberal-capitalist and conservatNew directions in southern history.MerchantsSouthern StatesHistorySouthern StatesSocial conditionsSouthern StatesEconomic conditionsMerchantsHistory.381.0975/09034Byrne Frank J.1968-1606316MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910827871903321Becoming bourgeois3932052UNINA