Confidence men and painted women

Karen Halttunen draws a vivid picture of the social and cultural development of the upwardly mobile middle class, basing her study on a survey of the conduct manuals and fashion magazines of mid-nineteenth-century America.

המשפט הראשון: During the first half of the nineteenth century, unprecedented numbers of young men were leaving their rural homes and families to seek work in the booming cities of industrializing America.

שנה

1982

שפה

English

הוצאה

Yale University Press

מהדורות

1

עמודים

262

ISBN

9780300037883

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata