The middling sort of people : culture, society, and politics in England, 1550-1800 / edited by Jonathan Barry and Christopher Brooks.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barry, Jonathan, 1956-

Brooks, C. W.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Middle class.

History.

England--Civilization--18th century.

England.

Civilization.

Middle class--England--History--18th century.

England--Civilization--17th century.

Middle class--England--History--17th century.

England--Civilization--16th century.

Middle class--England--History--16th century.

Great Britain--Politics and government.

Great Britain.

Politics and government.

England--Social conditions.

Social conditions.

Physical Description:

vi, 282 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : St. Martin's Press, 1994.

Summary:

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-216) and index.

ISBN:

0312123566

OCLC:

31864846