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Author:

Kilbride, Daniel, 1968-

Title:

An American aristocracy : southern planters in antebellum Philadelphia / Daniel Kilbride.

Publisher:

University of South Carolina Press,

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

x, 216 p., [10] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Philadelphia (Pa.)--Social life and customs--19th century.
Philadelphia (Pa.)--Social conditions--19th century.
Interpersonal relations--Philadelphia--Philadelphia--History--19th century.
Aristocracy (Political science)--Philadelphia--Philadelphia--History--19th century.
Aristocracy (Political science)--Southern States--History--19th century.
Plantation owners--Southern States--History--19th century.
Leisure class--History--19th century.
Social classes--Philadelphia--Philadelphia--History--19th century.
Community life--Philadelphia--Philadelphia--History--19th century.
Sectionalism (United States)--History--19th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-204) and index.

Contents:

The Carolina row -- The Fisher family circle -- "Your appropriate sphere as a lady" : Philadelphia's French schools -- The republic of medicine -- Science and sociability : the American Philosophical Society -- "All the world is a city" : travel and tourism.

ISBN:

157003656X (cloth : alk. paper)
9781570036569 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)70230584

LCCN:

2006019671

Locations:

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)