Confidence men and painted women
Middle classes
Middle class, united states
Social Class
United states, moral conditions
Leisure
Middle class
Moral conditions
Urbanization
Social values
Etiquette
Clothing and dress
Social conditions
History
Karen Halttunen draws a vivid picture of the social and cultural development of the upwardly mobile middle class, basing her study on a survey of the conduct manuals and fashion magazines of mid-nineteenth-century America.
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