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

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UPC:
9780300037883
Maximum Purchase:
2 units
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
1986-09-10
Author:
Karen Halttunen
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Product Overview

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.

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