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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Virginia Tech
2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/33733 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-06242009-231445/ |