Founding Families Of Pittsburgh The Evolution Of A Regional Elite 1760 1910 1st Edition by Joseph Rishel 9780822936336 082293633X

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ISBN 10: 082293633X

ISBN 13: 9780822936336

Author: Joseph F Rishel

As Pittsburgh and its surrounding area grew into an important commercial and industrial center, a group of families emerged who were distinguished by their wealth and social position. Joseph Rishel studies twenty of these families to determine the degree to which they formed a coherent upper class and the extent to which they were able to maintain their status over time. His analysis shows that Pittsburgh’s elite upper class succeeded in creating the institutions needed to sustain a local aristocracy and possessed the ability to adapt its accumulated advantages to social and economic changes.

Table of contents:

I. The Historical Framework

II. Discovering the Founding Families

III. The Family Founders

IV. The Founding Families in 1820

V. Occupation

VI. Geographic Mobility

VII. The Family

VIII. Social Institutions

IX. Conclusion

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