Philadelphia Gentlemen: The Making of a National Upper Class

ISBN-13: 9781138529793 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 476 str.

Roger L. Geiger; E. Digby Baltzell

Opis

This proper Philadelphia story starts with the city's golden age at the close of the eighteenth century

Spis treści

Introduction to the Transaction Edition

Preface to the First Edition

1 Introduction
2 The American Metropolitan Upper Class and the Elite
3 The Philadelphia Upper Class and the Elite in 1940
4 The Structure and Function of an Upper Class
5 Pre-Civil War First Family Founders
6 Post-Civil War Family Founders
7 Proper Philadelphia Public Servants, Professionals, and Men of Letters
8 The Old Family Core of the 1940 Elite
9 Neighborhood and the Class Structure
10 Religion and the Class Structure
11 Parallel Upper-Class Structures
12 Education and Status Ascription
13 Social Clubs and the Class Structure
14 A Primary Group of Prestige and Power
15 Summary and Conclusion

Afterword: The American Aristocrat and Other-Direction

Index

O autorze

Roger L. Geiger