Confidence Men and Painted Women /

Confidence Men and Painted Women /

Karen Halttunen draws a vivid picture of the social and cultural development of the upwardly mobile middle class, basing her study on a survey of the conduct manuals and fashion magazines of mid-nineteenth-century America."An ingenious book: original, inventive, resourceful, and exciting. ... T...

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Main Author: Shipton, Parker MacDonald (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: De Gruyter
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [1997]
Subjects:
19th century
Hypocrisy
Middle class > United States > History > 19th century
Sincerity
Social values
History
Middle class
United States
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