The Middling Sort of People
Culture, Society and Politics in England 1550-1800
Published on 26. October 1994
Book
Hardback
VI, 288 pages
978-0-333-54062-6 (ISBN)
Description
This volume of essays seeks to offer a radical re-evaluation of most of our preconceptions about the early-modern English social order. The majority of people who lived in early-modern England were neither very rich nor very poor, yet a disproportionate amount of historiography has been directed towards precisely these groups. This book intends to define the term 'middle classes' and treat them as active participants of history, rather than as a simple by-product rising and falling according to others' activities.
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Edition
1994
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
VI, 288 p.
Dimensions
Height: 21.6 cm
Width: 13.8 cm
ISBN-13
978-0-333-54062-6 (9780333540626)
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Content
Preface.- Introduction; J.Barry.- 'Sorts of People' in Tudor and Stuart England; K.Wrightson.- Apprenticeship, Social Mobility and the Middling Sort 1550-1800; C.Brooks.- Bourgeois Collectivism? Urban Association and the Middling Sort; J.Barry.- Professions, Ideology and the Middling Sort in the late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries; C.Brooks.- The Middling Sort in London; P.Earle.- The Middling Sort in Eighteenth Century Politics; N.Rogers.- The Middling Sort in Eighteenth Century Colchester: Independence, Social Relations and the Community Broker; S.D'Cruze.- Bibliography.- Notes and References.- Notes on Contributors.- Index.