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.
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.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
A. Ricardo López is Assistant Professor of History at Western Washington University. Barbara Weinstein is the Silver Professor of History at New York University. She is the author of For Social Peace in Brazil: Industrialists and the Remaking of the Working Class in São Paulo, 1920–1964.
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Acknowledgments ix Introduction: We Shall Be All: Toward a Transnational History of the Middle Class / A. Ricardo López with Barbara Weinstein 1 Part I: The Making of the Middle Class and Practices of Modernity 27 Thinking about Modernity from the Margins: The Making of a Middle Class in Colonial India / Sanjay Joshi 29 The African Middle Class in Zimbabwe: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives / Michael O. West 45 Between Modernity and Backwardness: The Case of the English Middle Class / Simon Gunn 58 "Aren't We All?": Aspiration, Acquisition, and the American Middle Class / Marina Moskowitz 75 The Gatekeepers: Middle-Class Campaigns of Citizenship in Early Cold War Canada / Franca Iacovetta 87 Commentary on Part I / Barbara Weinstein 107 Part II: Labor Professionalization, Class Formation, and State Rule 119 The Conundrum of the Middle-Class Worker in the Twentieth-Century United States: The Professional Managerial Workers' (Folk) Dance around Class / Daniel J. Walkowitz 121 Becoming Middle Class: The Local History of a Global Story-Colonial Bombay, 1890-1940 / Prashant Kidambi 141 Conscripts of Democracy: The Formation of a Professional Middle Class in Bogotá During the 1950s and Early 1960s / A. Ricardo López 161 The Formation of the Revolutionary Middle Class during the Mexican Revolution / Michael A. Ervin 196 Commentary on Part II / Mary Kay Vaughan 223 Part III: Middle-Class Politics in Revolution 233 A Middle Class Revolution: The APRA Party and Middle-Class Identity in Peru, 1931-1956 / Iñigo García-Bryce 235 Revolutionary Promises Encounter Urban Realities for Mexico City's Middle Class, 1915-1928 / Susanne Eineigel 253 Being Middle Class and Being Arab: Sectarian Dilemmas and Middle-Class Modernity in the Arab Middle East, 1908-1936 / Keith David Watenpaugh 267 Commentary on Part III / Brian Owensby 288 Part IV: Middle-Class Politics and the Making of the Public Sphere 297 The City as a Field of Female Civic Action: Women and Middle-Class Formation in Nineteenth-Century Germany / Gisela Mettele 299 Putting Faith in the Middle Class: the Bourgeoisie, Catholicism, and Postrevolutionary France / Carol E. Harrison 315 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 335 "Los Argentinos Descendemos de los Barcos": The Racial Articulation of Middle-Class Identity in Argentina, 1920-1960 / Enrique Garguin 355 Commentary on Part IV / Robyn Muncy 377 Afterword / Mrinalini Sinha 385 Bibliography 395 Contributors 431 Index 435
Acknowledgments ix Introduction: We Shall Be All: Toward a Transnational History of the Middle Class / A. Ricardo López with Barbara Weinstein 1 Part I: The Making of the Middle Class and Practices of Modernity 27 Thinking about Modernity from the Margins: The Making of a Middle Class in Colonial India / Sanjay Joshi 29 The African Middle Class in Zimbabwe: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives / Michael O. West 45 Between Modernity and Backwardness: The Case of the English Middle Class / Simon Gunn 58 "Aren't We All?": Aspiration, Acquisition, and the American Middle Class / Marina Moskowitz 75 The Gatekeepers: Middle-Class Campaigns of Citizenship in Early Cold War Canada / Franca Iacovetta 87 Commentary on Part I / Barbara Weinstein 107 Part II: Labor Professionalization, Class Formation, and State Rule 119 The Conundrum of the Middle-Class Worker in the Twentieth-Century United States: The Professional Managerial Workers' (Folk) Dance around Class / Daniel J. Walkowitz 121 Becoming Middle Class: The Local History of a Global Story-Colonial Bombay, 1890-1940 / Prashant Kidambi 141 Conscripts of Democracy: The Formation of a Professional Middle Class in Bogotá During the 1950s and Early 1960s / A. Ricardo López 161 The Formation of the Revolutionary Middle Class during the Mexican Revolution / Michael A. Ervin 196 Commentary on Part II / Mary Kay Vaughan 223 Part III: Middle-Class Politics in Revolution 233 A Middle Class Revolution: The APRA Party and Middle-Class Identity in Peru, 1931-1956 / Iñigo García-Bryce 235 Revolutionary Promises Encounter Urban Realities for Mexico City's Middle Class, 1915-1928 / Susanne Eineigel 253 Being Middle Class and Being Arab: Sectarian Dilemmas and Middle-Class Modernity in the Arab Middle East, 1908-1936 / Keith David Watenpaugh 267 Commentary on Part III / Brian Owensby 288 Part IV: Middle-Class Politics and the Making of the Public Sphere 297 The City as a Field of Female Civic Action: Women and Middle-Class Formation in Nineteenth-Century Germany / Gisela Mettele 299 Putting Faith in the Middle Class: the Bourgeoisie, Catholicism, and Postrevolutionary France / Carol E. Harrison 315 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 335 "Los Argentinos Descendemos de los Barcos": The Racial Articulation of Middle-Class Identity in Argentina, 1920-1960 / Enrique Garguin 355 Commentary on Part IV / Robyn Muncy 377 Afterword / Mrinalini Sinha 385 Bibliography 395 Contributors 431 Index 435
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