Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. 1. Theorizing Class in Glasgow and the Atlantic World 16
5. 2. Stratification and Class in Eastern Native America 35
6. 3. Subaltern Indians, Race, and Class in Early America 49
7. 4. Class Struggle in a West Indian Plantation Society 62
8. 5. Class at an African Commercial Enclave 76
9. 6. A Class Struggle in New York? 88
10. 7. Middle-Class Formation in Eighteenth-Century North America 99
11. 8. Business Friendships and Individualism in a Mercantile Class of Citizens in Charleston 109
12. 9. Corporations and the Coalescence of an Elite Class in Philadelphia 123
13. 10. Class, Discourse, and Industrialization in the New American Republic 138
14. 11. Sex and Other Middle-Class Pastimes in the Life of Ann Carson 156
15. 12. Leases and the Laboring Classes in Revolutionary America 168
16. 13. Class and Capital Punishment in Early Urban North America 185
17. 14. Class Stratification and Children’s Work in Post-Revolutionary Urban America 198
18. 15. Afterword: Constellations of Class in Early North America and the Atlantic World 213
19. Notes 235
20. Contributors 315
21. Index 319
22. Acknowledgments 327