Confidence Men and Painted Women: A Study of Middle-class Culture in America, 1830-1870 (Yale Historical Publications)

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UPC:
9780300037883
Binding:
Paperback
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Publication Date:
9/10/1986
Author:
Karen Halttunen
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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.
An ingenious book: original, inventive, resourceful, and exciting.