Business & Economics, Economics
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Synopsis
Riches, Class, and Power, represents more than five years' intensive research on the wealth, family backgrounds, careers, marriages, residential patterns, uses of leisure,life-styles, social standing, and influence and power of the wealthy in four of the five largest cities in the United States before the Civil War. Pessen examines New York City, Philadelphia,Boston and the then-separate city of Brooklyn in the 1820s and 1840s. His claim is that the massive evidence on urban life of the time sharply refutes Tocqueville's thesis. National Book Award nominee.Book Details
Published
January 1, 1974
Publisher
D. C. Heath and Company
Pages
378
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780669844597