The making of the middle class : toward a transnational history of the middle class / A. Ricardo López and Barbara Weinstein, editors.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

López, A. Ricardo, Author.

Contributor:

López, A. Ricardo, 1974-

Weinstein, Barbara.

Series:

Radical perspectives.

Radical perspectives : a radical history review book series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Middle class--History--19th century.

Middle class.

Middle class--History--20th century.

Middle class--History--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (461 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2012

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction : toward a transnational history of the middle class

A. Ricardo López with Barbara Weinstein

Thinking about modernity from the margins : the making of a middle class in colonial India / Sanjay Joshi

The African middle class in Zimbabwe: historical and contemporary perspectives / Michael O. West

Between modernity and backwardness : the case of the English middle class / Simon Gunn

"Aren't we all?" : aspiration, acquisition, and the American middle class / Marina Moskowitz

The gatekeepers : middle-class campaigns of citizenship in early Cold War Canada / Franca Iacovetta

The conundrum of the middle-class worker in the twentieth-century United States : the professional managerial workers' (folk) dance around class / Daniel J. Walkowitz

Becoming middle class : the local history of a global story, colonial Bombay, 1890-1940 / Prashant Kidambi

Conscripts of democracy : the formation of a professional middle class in Bogotá during the 1950s and early 1960s / A. Ricardo López

The formation of the revolutionary middle class during the Mexican revolution / Michael A. Ervin

A middle-class revolution : the APRA party and middle-class identity in Peru, 1931-1956 / Iñigo García-Brice

Revolutionary promises encounter urban realities for Mexico City's middle class, 1915-1928 / Susanne Eineigel

Being middle class and being Arab : sectarian dilemmas and middle-class modernity in the Arab Middle East, 1908-1936 / Keith David Watenpaugh

The city as a field of female civic action : women and middle-class formation in nineteenth-century Germany / Gisela Mettele

Putting faith in the middle class: the bourgeoisie, Catholicism, and postrevolutionary France / Carol E. Harrison

Siúticos, huachafos, cursis, arribistas, and gente de medio pelo : social climbers and the representation of class in Chile and Peru, 1860-1930 / David S. Parker

"Los argentinos descendemos de los barcos?" : the racial articulation of middle-class identity in Argentina, 1920-1960 / Enrique Garguin

Afterword / Mrinalini Sinha.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record

ISBN:

9786613523662

9781280119620

1280119624

9780822394815

0822394812

OCLC:

774956291