Becoming Bourgeois: Merchant Culture in the South, 1820-1865

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Becoming Bourgeois NEW DIRECTIONS IN SOUTHERN HISTORY SERIES EDITORS Peter S. Carmichael, University of North Carolina at Greensboro Michele Gillespie, Wake Forest University William A. Link, University of Florida Southern Farmers and Their Stories: Memory and Meaning in Oral History by Melissa Walker The View from the Ground: Experiences of Civil War Soldiers Edited by Aaron Sheehan-Dean Becoming Bourgeois Merchant Culture in the South, 820–865 Frank J. Byrne The฀University฀Press฀of฀Kentucky Publication of this volume was made possible in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Copyright © 2006 by The University Press of Kentucky Scholarly publisher for the Commonwealth, serving Bellarmine University, Berea College, Centre College of Kentucky, Eastern Kentucky University, The Filson Historical Society, Georgetown College, Kentucky Historical Society, Kentucky State University, Morehead State University, Murray State University, Northern Kentucky University, Transylvania University, University of Kentucky, University of Louisville, and Western Kentucky University. All rights reserved. Editorial and Sales Offices: The University Press of Kentucky 663 South Limestone Street, Lexington, Kentucky 40508–4008 www.kentuckypress.com 06 07 08 09 10 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Byrne, Frank J., 1968Becoming bourgeois : merchant culture in the South, 1820-1865 / Frank J. Byrne. p. cm. — (New directions in southern history) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-2404-9 (hardcover : alk. paper) ISBN-10: 0-8131-2404-2 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Merchants—Southern States—History. 2. Southern States—Social conditions— History. 3. Southern States—Economic conditions—History. I. Title. HF3153.B97 2006 381.0975’09034—dc22 2006019967 This book is printed on acid-free recycled paper meeting the requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence in Paper for Printed Library Materials. Manufactured in the United States of America. Member of the Association of American University Presses To my wife, Mary McCune, my mother, Marilyn Byrne, and to the memory of my father, Frank L. Byrne ...