Making the American Aristocracy: Women, Cultural Capital, and High Society in New York City, 1870-1900

Making the American Aristocracy: Women, Cultural Capital, and High Society in New York City, 1870-1900

For over three decades, during the height of Gilded Age economic extravagance, the women of New York High Society maintained an elite social identity by possessing, displaying, and cultivating cultural capital. Particularly, High Society women sought to exclude the Nouveaux Riches who, after amassin...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bibby, Emily Katherine
Other Authors: History
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
Subjects:
Cultural Capital
Dress
Culture of Aspiration
Culture of Consumption
High Society
New York City
Speech
Posture
Women
Space
Gilded Age
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/33733
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-06242009-231445/

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http://hdl.handle.net/10919/33733
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-06242009-231445/

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