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Tables of Contents for The Middling Sorts
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
vii
Introduction: Storytellers to the Middle Class
1
26
Burton J. Bledstein
Middling Sorts For The New Nation
27
42
The Social Consequences of American Revolutionary Ideals in the Early Republic
31
19
Joyce Appleby
``We Are Not Afraid to Work'': Master Mechanics and the Market, Revolution in the Antebellum North
50
19
Bruce Laurie
Morality And Markets In The Nineteenth Century
69
32
Charitable Calculations: Fancywork, Charity, and the Culture of the Sentimental Market, 1830-1880
73
13
Elizabeth Alice White
Bringing Up Yankees: The Civil War and the Moral Education of Middle-Class Children
86
15
James Marten
The Cultural Uses of the Spirit
101
50
Henry Ward Beecher and the ``Great Middle Class'': Mass-Marketed Intimacy and Middle-Class Identity
107
18
Debby Applegate
Scientific Church Music and the Making of the American Middle Class
125
11
Edward James Kilsdonk
Secularization Reconsidered: Chautauqua and the De-Christianization of Middle-Class Authority, 1880-1920
136
15
Andrew Chamberlin Rieser
The Middle Is Material
151
34
Cartes de Visite Portrait Photographs and the Culture of Class Formation
157
13
Andrea Volpe
Public Exposure: Middle-Class Material Culture at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
170
15
Marina Moskowitz
Business Careers In Modern Times
185
50
Obstacles to History? Modernization and the Lower Middle Class in Chicago, 1900-1940
189
12
Andrew Wender Cohen
The Corporate Reconstruction of Middle-Class Manhood
201
16
Clark Davis
The Rise of the Realtor®: Professionalism, Gender, and Middle-Class Identity, 1908-1950
217
18
Jeffrey M. Hornstein
The Politics Of Race And Community
235
46
The Rising Tide of Youth: Chicago's Wonder Books and the ``New'' Black Middle Class
239
17
Adam Green
The Limits of Democracy in the Suburbs: Constructing the Middle Class through Residential Exclusion
256
11
Theresa Mah
Rethinking Middle-Class Populism and Politics in the Postwar Era: Community Activism in Queens
267
14
Sylvie Murray
Why Class Continues to Count
281
26
Propertied of a Different Kind: Bourgeoisie and Lower Middle Class in the Nineteenth-Century United States
285
11
Sven Beckert
Conclusion: Historians and the American Middle Class
296
11
Robert D. Johnston
Notes
307
50
Contributors
357
2
Index
359