Author: William H. BOYDPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Boyd's New York City Tax-Book; being a list of persons ... who were taxed according to the Assessors' Books, 1856 & '57
Author: William H. BOYDBoyd's New York City Tax-book
Author: The Urban Establishment
Author: Frederic Cople JaherPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252009327
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 798
Book Description
British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Author: Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed BooksPublisher: William Clowes & Sons, Limited
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
Social Structure and Social Mobility
Author: Neil L. ShumskyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113560438X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
First Published in 1996. Volume 7 SOCIAL STRUCTURE AND SOCIAL MOBILITY of the ‘American Cities; series. This collection brings together more than 200 scholarly articles pertaining to the history and development of urban life in the United States during the past two centuries. Volume 7 looks at social class structure and social mobility. Its articles address questions that have intrigued historians for decades. What has been the class structure of American cities during the past two centuries? How much mobility has been possible? For whom has it been possible? What has been the relationship between social and geographic mobility? Finally, how have all kinds of Americans tried to improve their social status?
Riches, Class, and Power
Author: Edward PessenPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351492934
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 431
Book Description
Until publication of Riches, Classes, and Power, Alexis de Tocquerville's vision of the United States as a generally egalitarian nation predominated. While historians might quarrel about the social sources of egalitarianism, they did not dispute the soundness of the basic model; and Tocqueville's vision clearly dominated American's sense of itself as well. A self-acknowledged congenital skeptic, Pessen decided to find out whether the facts of American life sustained Tocqueville's conclusions. 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. A National Book Award finalist for history, Riches, Class, and Power undoubtedly helped reshape America before the Civil War. In his reintroduction to this paperback edition, Pessen reviews the critical reaction, and reconsiders the extent to which its findings are applicable to the social structure of small or frontier towns of the period. He discusses whether unequal distribution of wealth in America results more from changes in historical circumstance or to shifts in demographic or age structure.
Dictionary of Books relating to America
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375019939
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.
A Dictionary of Books Relating to America from Its Discovery to the Present Time: Bedinger to Brownell
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
A dictionary of books relating to America, from its discovery to the present time
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 375251017X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1860.