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Complete facsimile publication of the 1807 edition of Jones's works (this is generally regarded as the most important edition) with extensive new material, edited and introduced by Garland Cannon.
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Garland Cannon is Professor of English and Linguistics at Texas A&M University, editor of The Letters of Sir William Jones, and author of the definitive biography, The Life and Mind of Oriental Jones.
"In this fascinating portrait of American striving, Luskey locates the origins of white-collar culture in the precarious world of the antebellum clerk. Luskey's clerks are the forerunners of the men in the gray flannel suits, the ancestors of today's corporate managers, and his examination of their search for success in the uncertain markets of the nineteenth century expands our understanding of how the middle-class was made. Broadly interdisciplinary in scope and eloquent in the telling, On the Make is a valuable addition to the growing list of books that illuminate the cultural and social history of American business."
-Timothy B. Spears, author of "Chicago Dreaming"
"Luskey combines the methods of cultural and social history to accomplish a tricky feat: he maps out, on the one hand, the structural impediments to clerks' quest for "economic capital," and on the other hand, the hazardous discursive field in which they pursued "cultural capital." Making use of diaries, credit reports, manuscript census schedules, and a variety of print media, he skillfully documents the clerk's many travails."-,
"On the Make is essential reading not only for the history of clerks, but as well for the history of manhood, urban life, and class development in antebellum America."-Sharon Ann Murphy, "The Historian"
"More clearly than any previous scholar, Luskey has answered the question 'What, exactly, was a clerk?' Forced to do a wide variety of manual labor, they wore white collars, but in Luskey's clever turn of phrase, the collars often weren't all that white. Nor were all clerks created equal. As both clerks and their employers were well aware, many had limited opportunities for upward mobility. This is not just first rate social history that makes an important contribution to our understanding of the consolidation of class in the nineteenth century, but also first rate cultural history that skillfully teases out the ambiguities of the clerk's place in nineteenth-century popular culture."
-Amy Greenberg, author of "Manifest Manhood and the Antebellum American Empire"
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- PublisherRoutledge
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0700702466
- ISBN 13 9780700702466
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages6512
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