{"product_id":"the-monied-metropolis-new-york-city-and-the-consolidation-of-the-american-bourgeoisie-18501896-9780521790390","title":"The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie  18501896","description":"\u003cp\u003eTracing the shifting fortunes and changing character of New York Citys economic elite over half a century  Sven Beckert brings to light a neglected--and critical--chapter in the social history of the U.S.: the rise of an American bourgeoisie. The Monied Metropolis is the first comprehensive history of New Yorks economic elite  the most powerful group in nineteenth-century America. Beckert explains how a small and diverse group of New Yorkers came to wield unprecedented economic  social  and political power from 1850 to the turn of the twentieth century. He reveals the central role of the Civil War in realigning New Yorks economic elite  and how the New York bourgeoisie reoriented its ideology during Reconstruction  abandoning the free labor views of the antebellum years for laissez-faire liberalism. Sven Beckert is the Dunwalke Associate at Harvard University. He is the recipient of several honors and fellowships  including the Aby Warburg Foundation prize for academic excellence  a MacArthur Dissertation Fellowship and a Andrew W. Mellon fellowship. This is his first book.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45280124829749,"sku":"ByrdShop_0521790395","price":81.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780521790390.jpg?v=1780621826","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-monied-metropolis-new-york-city-and-the-consolidation-of-the-american-bourgeoisie-18501896-9780521790390","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}