| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.4

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Canada and the United States

Frank J. Byrne. Becoming Bourgeois: Merchant Culture in the South, 1820–1865. (New Directions in Southern History.) Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 2006. Pp. ix, 297. $50.00.

From southern exceptionalism and the nature of southern society to regional identity and the question of continuity versus change between the Old South and the New, recent scholarship on the American South has begun to add to and reinterpret longstanding historiographic debates and analytical frameworks. Within this context, scholars have brought previously marginalized or overlooked groups within the Old South—including industrialists, yeoman farmers, and artisans—to the center of historical inquiry. In doing so they have created a more nuanced and complicated picture of antebellum southern society. Frank J. Byrne contributes to this growing body of literature through an analysis of the Old South's merchant class, in which he offers valuable insight into the lives of merchant families, their shared worldview, and the role of liberal capitalism in the Old South.

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