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Founding Families Of Pittsburgh: The Evolution Of A Regional Elite 1760-1910 de JOSEPH F. RISHEL

Founding Families Of Pittsburgh: The Evolution Of A Regional Elite 1760-1910

Autor JOSEPH F. RISHEL
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 iul 2005
As Pittsburgh and its surrounding area grew into an important commercial and industrial center, a group of families emerged who were distinguished by their wealth and social position. Joseph Rishel studies twenty of these families to determine the degree to which they formed a coherent upper class and the extent to which they were able to maintain their status over time. His analysis shows that Pittsburgh's elite upper class succeeded in creating the institutions needed to sustain a local aristocracy and possessed the ability to adapt its accumulated advantages to social and economic changes.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822958789
ISBN-10: 0822958783
Pagini: 260
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Pittsburgh Press
Colecția University of Pittsburgh Press

Recenzii

"Rishel’s study is thought provoking, well researched, and well written. . . . Likely to become a classic in the study of American class and social mobility."
--American Historical Review

"Rishel’s book is an excellent, highly readable contribution to the literature on Pittsburgh and on the question of elites and social mobility."
--Journal of American History

"Traces the evolution of twenty of Pittsburgh’s earliest families into an ‘identifiable and homogeneous upper class.’ Such a study adds to our understanding of the persistence of regional elites of the late revolutionary period through the nineteenth century. . . . Rishel has written a laudably readable book using quantitative analysis and, more importantly, has given us a very interesting look at the elite of a non-seaboard city."
--Journal of the Early Republic

Notă biografică

Joseph F. Rishel is professor of history at Duquesne University.

Descriere

A study of twenty wealthy upper-class families during Pittsburgh’s growth into an important commerical and industrial center.  It shows how they succeeded in creating the institutions needed to sustain a local aristocracy and possessed the ability to adapt its accumulated advantages to social and economic changes.