Edward Pessen: 1 book
Riches, Class, and Power
United States Before the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Until publication of Riches, Classes, and Power, Alexis de Tocquerville's vision of the United States as a generally egalitarian nation predominated. While historians might quarrel about the social sources of egalitarianism, they did not dispute the soundness of the basic model; and Tocqueville's...
