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The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie, 1850–1896

Beckert, Sven·2001·Cambridge University Press eBooks
DOI 10.1017/cbo9781107050822
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This book, first published in 2001, is a comprehensive history of the most powerful group in the nineteenth-century United States: New York City's economic elite. This small and diverse group of Americans accumulated unprecedented economic, social, and political power, and decisively put their mark on the age. Professor Beckert explores how capital-owning New Yorkers overcame their distinct antebellum identities to forge dense social networks, create powerful social institutions, and articulate an increasingly coherent view of the world and their place within it. Actively engaging in a rapidly changing economic, social, and political environment, these merchants, industrialists, bankers, and professionals metamorphosed into a social class. In the process, these upper-class New Yorkers put their stamp on the major political conflicts of the day - ranging from the Civil War to municipal elections. Employing the methods of social history, The Monied Metropolis explores the big issues of nineteenth-century social change.

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Authors
Beckert, S.
Affiliations
Harvard University (US)
Corresponding author
Beckert, Sven
Venue
Cambridge University Press eBooks
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Published
2001-03-19
DOI
10.1017/cbo9781107050822
OpenAlex
W1596134073
Cited by
210
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Citations by year
2026: 4 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 12 · 2019: 8 · 2018: 9 · 2017: 19 · 2016: 7 · 2015: 15 · 2014: 21 · 2013: 18 · 2012: 17
FWCI
5.69
Type
book
Language
en
Open access
closed
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www.cambridge.org/core/terms (unspecified, 4856 d)
Locations
Cambridge University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Elite Sociology and Global Capitalism
  • Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Historical Economic and Social Studies
  • Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Marketing › American History and Culture
Keywords
nineteenth-century United States, social class formation, social networks, merchants, industrialists, bank employees, political power, antebellum New York, civil war, local elections, social change, urban elites

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