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THE BARONS OF MIDDLETOWN AND THE DECLINE OF THE NORTH-EASTERN ANGLO-PROTESTANT ELITE
Ist Teil von
Past & present, 2013-05, Vol.219 (219), p.165-200
Ort / Verlag
Oxford: Oxford University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2013
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Oxford Journals 2020 Humanities
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Schatz talks about the barons of Middletown CT and the decline of the North-Eastern Anglo-Protestant elite. Some of these men and women were descendants of the puritans who had settled in Middletown among the Wangunks in 1650. Others' forebears arrived during the Industrial Revolution. Melded together through business, friendship and marriage, these families held the reins of power in the city until the mid 1930s, when their failure to cope with two crises--one natural and the other social--convinced the majority of voters that the Republican Party, which the gentry controlled, could no longer govern effectively. The local aristocrats soon began to move away. Leadership of the town passed to the descendants of the immigrants who had labored in the barons' mills.