The Making Of The English Middle Class

Author : Peter Earle
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0520068262

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The Making of the English Middle Class by Peter Earle Pdf

This is the first major study of a neglected yet extremely significant subject: the London middle classes in the period between 1660 and 1730, a period in which they created a society and economy that can be seen with hindsight to have ushered in the modern world. Using a wealth of material from contemporary sources--including wills, business papers, inventories, marriage contracts, divorce hearings, and the writings of Daniel Defoe and Samuel Pepys--Peter Earle presents a fully rounded picture of the "middling sort of people," getting to the hearts of their lives as men and women struggling for success in the biggest, richest, and most middle-class city in contemporary Europe. He examines in fascinating and convincing detail the business life of Londoners, from apprenticeship through the problems and potential rewards of different occupational groups, going on to look at middle-class family, social, political and material life--from relationships with spouses, children, servants, and neighbors, to food and clothes and furniture, to sickness, death, and burial. Stimulating, scholarly, and constantly illuminating, this book is an important and impressive contribution to English social history.

Author : Edward Palmer Thompson
Publisher : IICA
Page : 862 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : England
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Making of the English Working Class by Edward Palmer Thompson Pdf

Author : Alan J. Kidd,David Nicholls
Publisher : Alan Sutton Publishing
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015047474153

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The Making of the British Middle Class? by Alan J. Kidd,David Nicholls Pdf

The contributors to this volume examine the history of the British middle classes from the onset of the Industrial Revolution. Geography, economy and occupation recur as factors contributing to differentiation between middling social groups. At the same time, the authors explore the significance for social and political behaviour of shared forms of identity, including a range of cultural practices - religion, voluntary activities and local cultural networks, the cultivation of professional status, education and the language of the press - and their organization and institutional forms: churches, schools, newspapers, voluntary and charitable associations and professional bodies. These several accounts raise broader theoretical and historiographical debates, not least about the vexed question of class, which are discussed and contextualized by the editors.

Author : E. P. Thompson
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 1078 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2002-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141934891

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The Making of the English Working Class by E. P. Thompson Pdf

A book that revolutionised our understanding of English social history. E. P. Thompson shows how the English working class emerged through the degradations of the industrial revolution to create a culture and political consciousness of enormous vitality.

Author : A. Ricardo López
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822351290

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The Making of the Middle Class by A. Ricardo López Pdf

The contributors question the current academic understanding of what is known as the global middle class. They see middle-class formation as transnational and they examine this group through the lenses of economics, gender, race, and religion from the mid-nineteenth century to today.

Author : John Lowerson
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Middle class
ISBN : 0719046513

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Sport and the English Middle Classes, 1870-1914 by John Lowerson Pdf

This book examines the phenomena which explain the boom in sport among the middle classes in late Victorian England. The author focuses on the extent to which sport became an agent of the development of the middle classes and an instrument of their self-definition. The book does not set out to explain the making of the English middle classes; rather, it examines a significant part of that making.

Author : Edward Palmer Thompson
Publisher : IICA
Page : 866 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Making of the English Working Class by Edward Palmer Thompson Pdf

This account of artisan and working-class society in its formative years, 1780 to 1832, adds an important dimension to our understanding of the nineteenth century. E.P. Thompson shows how the working class took part in its own making and re-creates the whole life experience of people who suffered loss of status and freedom, who underwent degradation and who yet created a culture and political consciousness of great vitality.

Author : Leonore Davidoff,Catherine Hall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135144050

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Family Fortunes by Leonore Davidoff,Catherine Hall Pdf

Family Fortunes has become a seminal text in class and gender history. Published to wide critical acclaim in 1987, its influence in the field continues to be extensive. It has cast new light on the perception of middle-class society and gender relations between 1780 and 1850. This revised edition contains a substantial new introduction, placing the original survey in its historiographical context. Leonore Davidoff and Catherine Hall evaluate the readings their text has received and broaden their study by taking into account recent developments and shifts in the field. They apply current perceptions of history to their original project, and see new motives and meanings emerge that reinforce their argument.

Author : Jennifer Elrick
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781487527808

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Making Middle-Class Multiculturalism by Jennifer Elrick Pdf

In the 1950s and 1960s, immigration bureaucrats in the Department of Citizenship and Immigration played an important yet unacknowledged role in transforming Canada’s immigration policy. In response to external economic and political pressures for change, high-level bureaucrats developed new admissions criteria gradually and experimentally while personally processing thousands of individual immigration cases per year. Making Middle-Class Multiculturalism shows how bureaucrats’ perceptions and judgements about the admissibility of individuals – in socioeconomic, racial, and moral terms – influenced the creation of formal admissions criteria for skilled workers and family immigrants that continue to shape immigration to Canada. A qualitative content analysis of archival documents, conducted through the theoretical lens of a cultural sociology of immigration policy, reveals that bureaucrats’ interpretations of immigration files generated selection criteria emphasizing not just economic utility, but also middle-class traits and values such as wealth accumulation, educational attainment, entrepreneurial spirit, resourcefulness, and a strong work ethic. By making "middle-class multiculturalism" a demographic reality and basis of nation-building in Canada, these state actors created a much-admired approach to managing racial diversity that has nevertheless generated significant social inequalities.

Author : Robert John Morris
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Leeds (England)
ISBN : 0719022258

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Class, Sect, and Party by Robert John Morris Pdf

Author : Janet Wolff,John Seed
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0719024617

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The Culture of Capital by Janet Wolff,John Seed Pdf

Author : Mary P. Ryan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : 0521274036

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Cradle of the Middle Class by Mary P. Ryan Pdf

Winner of the 1981 Bancroft Prize. Focusing primarily on the middle class, this study delineates the social, intellectual and psychological transformation of the American family from 1780-1865. Examines the emergence of the privatized middle-class family with its sharp division of male and female roles.

Author : R. H. Gretton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : YALE:39002052249282

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The English Middle Class by R. H. Gretton Pdf

Author : Friedrich Engels
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442936911

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Condition of the Working-Class in England by Friedrich Engels Pdf

This masterpiece by Engels reflects his views on the plight of labour classes in England. It is based on his in-depth research and parliamentary reports. In a factual and analytic manner he has voiced his support for fundamental human rights. It is an emphatic protest against the barbarianism of capitalism and industrialization. A prototypical opus!

Author : Simon Gunn,Rachel Bell
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781780220734

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Middle Classes by Simon Gunn,Rachel Bell Pdf

The first general history of the English middle classes, based on BBC TV programme of which Will Self said "No simple overview can do justice to this programme - an exemplary series and mandatory viewing'. Afternoon tea, the Women's Institute, Mrs Beeton, department stores, suburbia, seaside holidays and cycling clubs - all preserves of the great middle class. But where did the middle classes come from? And what makes a person middle class today? Although the term 'middle class' is part of our everyday language, the middle class has not been a feature of the British social scene from time immemorial. Drawing on the memories and life stories of individuals and families, as well as the words of distinguished historians and social commentators, this fascinating portrait of a people traces the roots of middle-class values in Victorian England through to the great educational reforms of the twentieth century. Panoramic and personal, this book provides a compelling picture of this influential social group and looks at what their future might be.