This book recreates the daily lives of laboring men and women in America's premier urban center during the second half of the eighteenth century. Billy G. Smith demonstrates how the "lower sort" (as they were called by their contemporaries) struggled to carve out meaningful lives during an era of vast change stretching from the Seven Years' War, through the turbulent events surrounding the American Revolution and the U.S. Constitution, into the first decade of the new nation.
This book recreates the daily lives of laboring men and women in America's premier urban center during the second half of the eighteenth century. B...
Offers insights into the evolution of class analysis and its shifting place in the field of labor history. This title discusses the theoretical foundations and implications of a globalized mode of historical class analysis, examining the connections among peoples in Europe, Africa, and North America during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Offers insights into the evolution of class analysis and its shifting place in the field of labor history. This title discusses the theoretical founda...
As a category of historical analysis, class is dead--or so it has been reported over the past two decades. The contributors to Class Matters contest this demise. Although differing in their approaches, they all agree that socioeconomic inequality remains indispensable to a true understanding of the transition from the early modern to modern era in North America and the rest of the Atlantic world. As a whole, they chart the emergence of class as a concept and its subsequent loss of analytic purchase in Anglo-American historiography.
The opening section considers the dynamics of...
As a category of historical analysis, class is dead--or so it has been reported over the past two decades. The contributors to Class Matters...
