"Stuck in the middle (class) with you".(The Origins of the Southern Middle Class, 1800-1861)(Book review)

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Jonathan Daniel Wells. The Origins of the Southern Middle Class, 1800-1861. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.

Like other relatively recent scholarship on neglected groups such as the yeomanry (Hahn 1983) and artisans (Gillespie 2000), Jonathan Daniel Wells's ambitious new book seeks to repopulate the Old South with more than just masters and slaves. More so than others, however, Wells frames his argument by bringing class back into the historical equation. This may be a somewhat risky decision, for as the British historian R. H. Tawney (1931, 52) once ...

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