Social Structure of Revolutionary America
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19910908 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jackson Turner Main (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1965 |
| Pages | 342 |
| Publication date | 1965-12-31 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Social Structure of Revolutionary America (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Princeton University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1515/9781400879045 |
| OpenAlex | W4300020379 |
| ISBN | 9781400879045 |
| Open Library | OL29294723M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 40 |
Professor Main's conviction is that an understanding of political history in Colonial America depends on a knowledge of the country's underlying social structure. To provide this he examines different types of societies in revolutionary America between 1763 and 1788: frontier, subsistence farm, commercial farm, urban. He studies in detail the nature of land ownership, distribution of property and income, relations between income levels and culture, and the extent of social mobility. Thousands of probate and. tax records are examined to provide an analysis of the economic class structure of a new nation. Traditional historical techniques are combined with a conceptual framework from sociology relating to class structure, stratification, and mobility. Originally published in 1965. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905
Archaeology · Colonialism · Economic history · Frontier · Political science · Politics · Probate · Social class · Social mobility · Social science · Sociology · Subsistence agriculture · History · Law · Race, History, and American Society · 1775-1783 · revolution · Social conditions · Social life and customs · to 1865 · united states
The Settlement and Growth of the Colonies
Landscapes of Power
Political exchange and the voting franchise
The Supreme Court of Judicature of Colonial New York
Crime, the Criminal Law and Reform in Post-Revolutionary Virginia
Wealth and status in the upper South socioeconomic system of Northeastern Missouri
Consumer behavior in colonial charlestown, Massachusetts, 1630–1760
Maps in the Marketplace
Visible Charity
Ceramics as Indicators of Status and Class in Eighteenth-Century New York
The Labor Theory of Value and Simple Commodity Production
Kant's Political Philosophy
The Growth of Real Product in the United States Before 1840
Forgetting Freedom
Reflections on Immigration to Europe in Light of U.S. Immigration History
Slave Ownership in Early Georgia
Looking Backward
The Racialization of Legal Categories in the First U.S. Census
Big Social Science History
Old women and old men in seventeenth‐century Wethersfield, Connecticut
Colonial Military Garrisons as Labor‐Market Shocks
Labor in the era of the American Revolution
The study of social mobility
Labor in the era of the American revolution
The working classes of the pre‐industrial American city, 1780–1830
Time and work during early American industrialism
The Best Poor Man's Country’
Destined for Democracy? Labour Markets and Political Change in Colonial British America
Reconstructing Daily Life in the Past
The Discourses Of Production (Part II)
Learning for Its Own Sake
La fortune privée en Pennsylvanie, New Jersey, Delaware (1774)
American Incomes Before and After the Revolution
Frequency and chronological distribution of linear enamel hypoplasia in a North American colonial skeletal sample
Banks, Credit Markets, and Early American Development
History QUASSHed
Economy and Society in an Earlier America
The 'Agrarian Question,' Class Struggle and the Capitalist'State in the United States and South Africa
American colonial incomes, 1650-1774
The agrarian origins of US capitalism
| Citations per year | 0.68 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1967 - 2020 (54) |
| Highly cited | No |