Cultivating Gentlemen The Meaning Of Country Life Among The Boston Elite 1785 - 1860
New Haven And London: Yale University Press, 1989. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket.
No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal shelf handling; The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, Minor age-toning to the edges of the text-block is the only flaw to note. Appears unread. The dust jacket is without flaw. 9.5 inches tall; 244 pages with an index; in-text illustrations.
During the period between the American Revolution and the Civil War, many wealthy merchants, financiers, manufacturers, lawyers, and politicians from Boston's upper class moved out to country estates. They took up farming as a hobby and started agricultural and gardening clubs.
It's interesting to note that these men, who played a big role in shifting Massachusetts from a farming to a commercial and industrial economy, spent so much time embracing rural life. In her engaging and well-illustrated book, Tamara Plakins Thornton explores these rural interests.
She argues that elite Bostonians used their connections to farming to portray themselves as virtuous members of a respected American upper class.
Item #18887
ISBN: 0300042566
Price: $24.95
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