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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Byrne, Frank J., 1968- Becoming bourgeois. Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, ©2006 (DLC) 2006019967 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Frank J Byrne |
ISBN: | 9780813171456 0813171458 |
OCLC Number: | 1126077872 |
Description: | 1 online resource (x, 297 pages) |
Contents: | 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. |
Responsibility: | Frank J. Byrne. |
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By carefully examining the world of southern merchants... Byrne challenges a historiography that is too determined to define white southern society either in terms of conservative paternalism or liberal capitalism. - John Majewski, UC Santa Barbara Read more...

