E Digby Baltzell
Biographic Data
| ID | 110024 |
|---|---|
| NAME | E Digby Baltzell |
| GIVEN NAMES | E Digby |
| FAMILY NAME | Baltzell |
| SIGNATURE | BALTZELL E D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pennsylvania |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 119 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1954 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Judgment and Sensibility: Religion and Stratification
Judgment and Sensibility is the second volume of the collected essays of E. Digby Baltzell, one of the keenest observers and analysts of America's upper classes since Thorstein Veblen. Spanning four decades of writing, these essays cover a wide range of topics, including contemporary politics, democratic elitism, Puritanism, Judaism, higher education, urbanization, and the U.S. Supreme Court, among others.
Philadelphia Gentlemen: The Making of a National Upper Class
This proper Philadelphia story starts with the city's golden age at the close of the eighteenth century. It is a classic study of an American business aristocracy of colonial stock with Protestant affiliations as well as an analysis of how fabulously wealthy nineteenth-century family founders in Boston, New York, and Philadelphia, supported various exclusive institutions that in the course of the twentieth century produced a national upper-class …
The Protestant Establishment Revisited
In the latter half of the twentieth century, The American upper class has become less like an aristocracy governing and guiding the nation and more like a caste, a privileged and closed body whose contribution to national leadership has steadily declined. This loss of power and authority has been the focus of the work of E. Digby Baltzell, whose 1964 work, The Protestant Establishment, analyzed the fate and function of a predominantly Anglo-Saxon…
Beyond the Ruling Class: Strategic Elites in Modern Society
Influential minorities have existed in some form in all human societies. Throughout history, such elites have evoked varied responses--respeet. hos-tility, fear. envy, imitation, but never indifference. While certain elite groups have been of only passing historical importance, strategic elites, whose mem-bers are national and international leaders, today are ultimately responsible for the realization of social goals and for the continuity of the…
Sporting Gentlemen: Men's Tennis from the Age of Honor to the Cult of the Superstar
Sporting Gentlemen: Men's Tennis from the Age of Honor to the Cult of the Superstar
Journal Article Sporting Gentlemen: Men's Tennis from the Age of Honor to the Cult of the Superstar. By E. Digby Baltzell. (New York: Free Press, 1995. xii, 420 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-02-901315-1.) Get access Allen Guttmann Allen Guttmann Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 4, March 1996, Pages 1588–1589, https://doi.org/10.2307/…
Judgement and Sensibility: Religion and Stratification
Goodbye to all that
Canon and class
From rags to robes: The Horatio Alger myth and the Supreme Court
From Patrician to Professional Elite: The Transformation of the New York City Bar Association. Michael J. Powell
Upperclass and elites
Social class in the oval office
Habits of the Heart
The Log Cabin Myth: The Social Backgrounds of the Presidents
Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia: Two Protestant Ethics and the Spirit of Class Authority and Leadership
The Forging of an Aristocracy: Harvard and the Boston Upper Class, 1800-1870
A (Sociological) Tale of Two Cities
The Divided Metropolis: Social and Spatial Dimensions of Philadelphia, 1800-1975
Journal Article The Divided Metropolis: Social and Spatial Dimensions of Philadelphia, 1800–1975. Ed. by William W. Cutler III and Howard Gillette, Jr. (Westport: Greenwood, 1980. xviii + 308 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $25.00.) Get access E. Digby Baltzell E. Digby Baltzell University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 6…
Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia: Two Protestant Ethics and the Spirit of Class Authority and Leadership
Journal Article Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia: Two Protestant Ethics and the Spirit of Class Authority and Leadership. By E. Digby Baltzell. (New York: Free Press, 1979. xii + 585 pp. Charts, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $19.95.) Get access Richard S. Dunn Richard S. Dunn University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 68, Issue…
Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia: Two Protestant Ethics and the Spirit of Class Authority and Leadership
Democracy, Mediocrity, and the Spirit of Max Weber
The Illusions of Progress.Georges Sorel , John Stanley , Charlotte Stanley
Epilogue: To Be a Phoenix-Reflections on Two Noisy Ages of Prose
White Protestant Americans: From National Origins to Religious Group. Charles H. Anderson
Beyond the Ruling Class: Strategic Elites in Modern Society
Influential minorities have existed in some form in all human societies. Throughout history, such elites have evoked varied responses--respeet. hos-tility, fear. envy, imitation, but never indifference. While certain elite groups have been of only passing historical importance, strategic elites, whose mem-bers are national and international leaders, today are ultimately responsible for the realization of social goals and for the continuity of the…
Philadelphia Gentlemen: The Making of a National Upper Class
This proper Philadelphia story starts with the city's golden age at the close of the eighteenth century. It is a classic study of an American business aristocracy of colonial stock with Protestant affiliations as well as an analysis of how fabulously wealthy nineteenth-century family founders in Boston, New York, and Philadelphia, supported various exclusive institutions that in the course of the twentieth century produced a national upper-class …
The Rich and the Super-Rich: A Study in the Power of Money Today
Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia: Two Protestant Ethics and the Spirit of Class Authority and Leadership
Sporting Gentlemen: Men's Tennis from the Age of Honor to the Cult of the Superstar
Journal Article Sporting Gentlemen: Men's Tennis from the Age of Honor to the Cult of the Superstar. By E. Digby Baltzell. (New York: Free Press, 1995. xii, 420 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-02-901315-1.) Get access Allen Guttmann Allen Guttmann Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 4, March 1996, Pages 1588–1589, https://doi.org/10.2307/…
The Divided Metropolis: Social and Spatial Dimensions of Philadelphia, 1800-1975
Journal Article The Divided Metropolis: Social and Spatial Dimensions of Philadelphia, 1800–1975. Ed. by William W. Cutler III and Howard Gillette, Jr. (Westport: Greenwood, 1980. xviii + 308 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $25.00.) Get access E. Digby Baltzell E. Digby Baltzell University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 6…
Social class in the oval office
The Search for Community in Modern America
Upperclass and elites
Habits of the Heart
Democracy, Mediocrity, and the Spirit of Max Weber
Epilogue: To Be a Phoenix-Reflections on Two Noisy Ages of Prose
Urbanization & Governmental Administration In Lower Bucks County
Urbanization & Governmental Administration in Lower Bucks County Get access E. Digby Baltzell E. Digby Baltzell 1University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 2, Issue 1, 1 July 1954, Pages 38–46, https://doi.org/10.2307/798663 Published: 09 August 2014
Factory Folkways; A Study of Institutional Structure and Change
Philadelphia Gentlemen
Reflections on Community Studies
The Rich and the Super-Rich: A Study in the Power of Money Today
The Search for Community in Modern America
The Rise and Fall of the Elites: An Application of Theoretical Sociology
White Protestant Americans: From National Origins to Religious Group. Charles H. Anderson
Epilogue: To Be a Phoenix-Reflections on Two Noisy Ages of Prose
The Illusions of Progress.Georges Sorel , John Stanley , Charlotte Stanley
Democracy, Mediocrity, and the Spirit of Max Weber
The Forging of an Aristocracy: Harvard and the Boston Upper Class, 1800-1870
A (Sociological) Tale of Two Cities
The Divided Metropolis: Social and Spatial Dimensions of Philadelphia, 1800-1975
Journal Article The Divided Metropolis: Social and Spatial Dimensions of Philadelphia, 1800–1975. Ed. by William W. Cutler III and Howard Gillette, Jr. (Westport: Greenwood, 1980. xviii + 308 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $25.00.) Get access E. Digby Baltzell E. Digby Baltzell University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 6…
Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia: Two Protestant Ethics and the Spirit of Class Authority and Leadership
Journal Article Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia: Two Protestant Ethics and the Spirit of Class Authority and Leadership. By E. Digby Baltzell. (New York: Free Press, 1979. xii + 585 pp. Charts, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $19.95.) Get access Richard S. Dunn Richard S. Dunn University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 68, Issue…
Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia: Two Protestant Ethics and the Spirit of Class Authority and Leadership
Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia: Two Protestant Ethics and the Spirit of Class Authority and Leadership
The Log Cabin Myth: The Social Backgrounds of the Presidents
Habits of the Heart
Social class in the oval office
From Patrician to Professional Elite: The Transformation of the New York City Bar Association. Michael J. Powell
Upperclass and elites
Canon and class
From rags to robes: The Horatio Alger myth and the Supreme Court
Goodbye to all that
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