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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1227100834 Title: Charleston and the emergence of middle-class culture in the revolutionary era Author: Jennifer L Goloboy Publisher: Athens : The University of Georgia Press, 2019 ©2016 ISBN/ISSN: 9780820355467 0820355461 OCLC:1227100834

  
  

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Charleston and the emergence of middle-class culture in the revolutionary era

Author:	Jennifer L Goloboy
Publisher:	Athens : The University of Georgia Press, 2019 ©2016
Series:	Early American places.
Edition/Format:	Print book : English : Paperback editionView all editions and formats
Summary:	Too often, says Jennifer L. Goloboy, we equate being middle class with "niceness"--A set of values frozen in the antebellum period and centered on long-term economic and social progress and a close, nurturing family life. Goloboy's case study of merchants in Charleston, South Carolina, looks to an earlier time to establish the roots of middle-class culture in America. She argues for a definition more applicable to the ruthless pursuit of profit in the early republic. To be middle class then was to be skilled at survival in the market economy. What prompted cultural shifts in the early middle class, Goloboy shows, were market conditions. In Charleston, deference and restraint were the bywords of the colonial business climate, while rowdy ambition defined the post-Revolutionary era, which in turn gave way to institution building and professionalism in antebellum times. Goloboy's research also supports a view of the Old South as neither precapitalist nor isolated from the rest of American culture, and it challenges the idea that post-Revolutionary Charleston was a port in decline by reminding us of a forgotten economic boom based on slave trading, cotton exporting, and trading as a neutral entity amid warring European states. This fresh look at Charleston's merchants lets us rethink the middle class in light of the new history of capitalism and its commitment to reintegrating the Old South into the world economy. --! From publisher's description  Read more...
Subjects	Charleston (S.C.) -- Social conditions -- 18th century. Charleston (S.C.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century. Middle class -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 18th century. View all subjects
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