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1st Edition

Philadelphia Gentlemen The Making of a National Upper Class

By E. Digby Baltzell Copyright 2014
    486 Pages
    by Routledge

    This is a classic study of Philadelphia’s business aristocracy of colonial stock with Protestant affiliations. It is also an analysis of how fabulously wealthy nineteenth-century family founders produced a national upper-class way of life. But as that way of life came to an end, the upper-class outlived its function; this, argues E. Digby Baltzell, is precisely what took place in the Philadelphia class system. For sociologists, historians, and those concerned with issues of culture and the economy, this is indeed a classic of modern social science.

    Introduction to the Transaction EditionPreface to the First Edition1 Introduction 2 The American Metropolitan Upper Class and the Elite 3 The Philadelphia Upper Class and the Elite in 1940 4 The Structure and Function of an Upper Class 5 Pre-Civil War First Family Founders 6 Post-Civil War Family Founders 7 Proper Philadelphia Public Servants, Professionals, and Men of Letters 8 The Old Family Core of the 1940 Elite 9 Neighborhood and the Class Structure 10 Religion and the Class Structure 11 Parallel Upper-Class Structures 12 Education and Status Ascription 13 Social Clubs and the Class Structure 14 A Primary Group of Prestige and Power 15 Summary and ConclusionAfterword: The American Aristocrat and Other-DirectionIndex

    Biography

    E. Digby Baltzell (1915-1996) was Emeritus Professor in the sociology department at the University of Pennsylvania. He also served as in various visiting professorial roles at Princeton Theological Seminary and Harvard University. He was author of 'The Protestant Establishment: Aristocracy and Caste in America' and 'Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia’ Two Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Class Authority', where many ideas initially suggested in Philadelphia Gentlemen' were first worked out.

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