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Routledge Riches, Class, and Power: United States Before Civil War

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This scholarly work challenges Alexis de Tocqueville's influential vision of the United States as an egalitarian nation by presenting extensive historical research into American wealth, class structures, and power dynamics before the Civil War. Drawing on more than five years of intensive investigation, the author examines whether the actual facts of American life support Tocqueville's foundational conclusions about social equality. The book addresses a critical gap in historical understanding by questioning the predominant model that shaped both academic discourse and American national identity. Rather than accepting the widespread assumption that egalitarianism defined pre-Civil War America, this work offers a rigorous examination of wealth distribution, family backgrounds, and social hierarchies that reveal a more complex picture of American society.

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Riches, Class, and Power directly counters the long-standing Tocqueville model that dominated historical and popular understanding of American egalitarianism.

The analysis draws on more than five years of intensive research into wealth, family structures, and power distribution in pre-Civil War America.

Published by Routledge, this work represents a significant scholarly contribution to social and urban history in American studies.

The book challenges fundamental assumptions about American identity and social structure that have persisted since the nineteenth century.

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12 September 2017
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