This book, first published in 2001, is a comprehensive history of the most powerful group in the nineteenth-century United States: New York City's economic elit

This volume engages a fundamental disciplinary question about this period in American history: how did the bourgeoisie consolidate their power and fashion thems

WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE • A Pulitzer Prize finalist that's as unsettling as it is enlightening: a book that brilliantly weaves together the story of cott

This book, first published in 2001, is a comprehensive history of nineteenth-century New York City's powerful economic elite.

In the early twentieth century over two hundred of New York's most glamorous socialites joined the suffrage movement. Although they were dismissed by critics as