Philadelphia Gentlemen: The Making of a National Upper Class

ISBN-13: 9781412855105 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 535 str.

E. Digby Baltzell

Opis

This is a classic study of Philadelphia's business aristocracy of colonial stock with Protestant affiliations. It is also an analysis of how fabulously wealthy nineteenth-century family founders produced a national upper-class way of life. But as that way of life came to an end, the upper-class outlived its function; this, argues E. Digby Baltzell, is precisely what took place in the Philadelphia class system. For sociologists, historians, and those concerned with issues of culture and the economy, this is indeed a classic of modern social science.

O autorze

Baltzell, E. Digby