Cotton, class and commerce : elite durability in nineteenth century Connecticut
The thesis challenges two enduring tenets in American history and culture: (a) that nineteenth century modernity generated widespread incidences of 'social disorder', culminating in democratic waves that swept mercantile, landowning elites from power: (b) that industrialisation is explaina...
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University of Leicester
2004
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.416252 |