Dror Wahrman

Imagining the Middle Class

The Political Representation of Class in Britain, C.1780 1840

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A radically new interpretation of political and social concepts during the Industrial Revolution in Britain.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 444
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 869g
• ISBN-13: 9780521471275
• ISBN-10: 0521471273
• Artikelnr.: 22155660

Inhaltsangabe

1. Imagining the 'middle class': an introduction
Part I. Against the Tide: Prelude to the 1790s: was the French Revolution a 'bourgeois revolution'?
2. The uses of 'middle class' language in the 1790s
3. Friends and foes of the 'middle class': the dialogic imagination
4. The political differentiation of social language: the debate on the triple assessment
Postlude to the 1790s: the uses of 'bourgeois revolution'
Part II. The Tug of War: 5. Taming the 'middle class'
6. The tug of war and its resolution
Part III. With the Tide: 7. The social construction of the middle class
8. The parallels across the Channel: a French aside
9. The debates on the Reform Bill: bowing to a new representation of the 'middle class'
10. Inventing the ever-rising 'middle class': the aftermath of 1832
11. 1832 and the 'middle class' conquest of the 'private sphere'
Epilogue.