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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: The marginal men: Merchants' clerks and society in the northeastern United States, 1790--1860 Abstract: This dissertation examines the lives of merchants' clerks in the urban northeast to explore the ways Americans confronted both the formation and fluidity of their society in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It illustrates the ways in which the issues of economic success and failure, social mobility, and manliness were intertwined with what the scholar Martin Burke has called early America's "conundrum of class." Clerks were crucial participants in the early American economy, ubiquitous members of urban society, and increasingly loomed as cultural figures whom other Americans used to make sense of social and economic change. What follows is social history, analyzing clerks' work and leisure experiences through a wide array of sources such as diaries, census data, business records, and newspapers. It is also cultural history, illuminating the interplay between the stories clerks told about themselves in their diaries and the stories told about clerks in advice literature and fiction. |
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