| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.2

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Book Review

An American Aristocracy: Southern Planters in Antebellum Philadelphia. By Daniel Kilbride. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2006. xii, 216 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-1-57003-656-9.)

A great deal of new studies on the ideology and daily life of southern planters has appeared in recent years. Most of those studies have rarely made reference to the slaveholding elite's connections with the North. Among those that have explicitly referred to such connections, William Kauffman Scarborough's Masters of the Big House (2003) is probably the one that has emphasized their importance most convincingly. To an extent, it is possible to see Daniel Kilbride's An American Aristocracy as a case study in some of the themes that Scarborough treated earlier. In both cases, in fact, the analysis of the ties between southern and northern propertied families has led the authors to claim that, in America, no member of the established elite had a strong enough regional affiliation or political prejudice to undermine the importance of the elite's fundamental common feature: wealth.

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