Jonathan Barry, Christopher Brooks

The Middling Sort of People (eBook, PDF)

Culture, Society and Politics in England 1550-1800

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Oktober 1994
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781349236565
• Artikelnr.: 54791410

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Barry, Christopher Brooks

Inhaltsangabe

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.