LEADER 02946nam 2200637 a 450 001 9910777899303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8131-3485-4 010 $a1-283-23264-2 010 $a9786613232649 010 $a0-8131-7145-8 035 $a(CKB)1000000000467660 035 $a(EBL)792199 035 $a(OCoLC)77013358 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000109605 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11129604 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000109605 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10059244 035 $a(PQKB)11538092 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000038477 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse13794 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL792199 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10495317 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL323264 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC792199 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000467660 100 $a20060619d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBecoming bourgeois$b[electronic resource] $emerchant culture in the South, 1820-1865 /$fFrank J. Byrne 210 $aLexington, Ky. $cUniversity Press of Kentucky$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (308 p.) 225 1 $aNew directions in southern history 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8131-3816-7 311 $a0-8131-2404-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 259-288) and index. 327 $aMerchant 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. 330 $aBecoming Bourgeois is the first study to focus on what historians have come to call the ""middling sort,"" the economic group falling between yeoman farmers and the planter class that dominated the antebellum South. At a time when Southerners rarely traveled far from their homes, these merchants annually ventured forth on buying junkets to northern cities. The southern merchant community promoted the kind of aggressive business practices that proponents of the ""New South"" would later claim as their own. Frank J. Byrne reveals the peculiar strains of modern liberal-capitalist and conservat 410 0$aNew directions in southern history. 606 $aMerchants$zSouthern States$xHistory 607 $aSouthern States$xSocial conditions 607 $aSouthern States$xEconomic conditions 615 0$aMerchants$xHistory. 676 $a381.0975/09034 700 $aByrne$b Frank J.$f1968-$01552577 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910777899303321 996 $aBecoming bourgeois$93812583 997 $aUNINA