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| Acknowledgments | ||
| Introduction: Storytellers to the Middle Class | 1 | |
| Middling Sorts For the New Nation | 27 | |
| The Social Consequences of American Revolutionary Ideals in the Early Republic | 31 | |
| "We Are Not Afraid to Work": Master Mechanics and the Market, Revolution in the Antebellum North | 50 | |
| Morality and Markets in The Nineteenth Century | 69 | |
| Charitable Calculations: Fancywork, Charity, and the Culture of the Sentimental Market, 1830-1880 | 73 | |
| Bringing Up Yankees: The Civil War and the Moral Education of Middle-Class Children | 86 | |
| The Cultural Uses Of The Script | 101 | |
| Henry Ward Beecher and the "Great Middle Class": Mass-Marketed Intimacy and Middle-Class Identity | 107 | |
| Scientific Church Music and the Making of the American Middle Class | 125 | |
| Secularization Reconsidered: Chautauqua and the De-Christianization of Middle-Class Authority, 1880-1920 | 136 | |
| The Middle Is Material | 151 | |
| Cartes de Visite Portrait Photographs and the Culture of Class Formation | 157 | |
| Public Exposure: Middle-Class Material Culture at the Turn of the Twentieth Century | 170 | |
| Business Careers in Modern Times | 185 | |
| Obstacles to History? Modernization and the Lower Middle Class in Chicago, 1900-1940 | 189 | |
| The Corporate Reconstruction of Middle-Class Manhood | 201 | |
| The Rise of the Realtor: Professionalism, Gender, and Middle-Class Identity, 1908-1950 | 217 | |
| The Politics Of Race And Community | 235 | |
| The Rising Tide of Youth: Chicago's Wonder Books and the "New" Black Middle Class | 239 | |
| The Limits of Democracy in the Suburbs: Constructing the Middle Class through Residential Exclusion | 256 | |
| Rethinking Middle-Class Populism and Politics in the Postwar Era: Community Activism in Queens | 267 | |
| Why Class Continues To Count | 281 | |
| Propertied of a Different Kind: Bourgeoisie and Lower Middle Class in the Nineteenth-Century United States | 285 | |
| Conclusion: Historians and the American Middle Class | 296 | |
| Notes | 307 | |
| Contributors | 357 | |
| Index | 359 |
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Tony Jones
reviewed The Middling Sorts: Explorations in the History of the American Middle Class on April 20, 2016
The Middling Sorts: Explorations in the History of the American Middle Class
How did America, transform from a frontier country to the lone super power in just over two centuries? How do America's claims to be the most modern and democratic country in the world, stand up to scrutiny whilst Middle America - The Backwoods America - remains the stronghold for the religious right?
In 'What is America', Wright traces the origins of America back to its original Indigenous Americans - the great Aztec and Incas civilizations. Wright explains that these empires were not conquered by the Spaniards until the small pox. In future years, the small pox and other white man's diseases were deliberately reintroduced whenever they were faced with strong indigenous opposition.In one generation, the American Indian's population was reduced to just a tenth of its size, mainly through white man's diseases.
In the first century of their settlement, the white leaders made 370 treaties with the Indians and proceeded to break them all. Aside from breaking all their promises, the white settlers continued to enslave, massacre and drive the indigenous population off their lands. The settlers justified their actions by demonizing the Indians, calling them savages and condemning their beliefs as devil worshipping. It's interesting to note, echoes of such tactics are still evident in the current US "War on Terror". Sadly, as Wright notes, such methods give "all repressive regimes of both right and left an excuse for their own atrocities."What is America is a captivating read about the colonial culture of America and its influence on how America is perceived in the eyes of the world. My one criticism is that I found the book far too brief (There are only 9 chapters and the last third of the book is taken up with notes). I would have liked to have read a more in depth commentary on the state of America during the past century - and its influence on the rest of the world- than what Wright offered.
An enjoyable read but unfortunately the length of the book left me unsatisfied.
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