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The Middling Sort of People

Culture, Society and Politics in England 1550-1800

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  • © 1994

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Editors:
  1. Jonathan Barry
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  2. Christopher Brooks
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Part of the book series: Themes in Focus (TIF)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Introduction

    • Jonathan Barry
    Pages 1-27

  3. ‘Sorts of People’ in Tudor and Stuart England

    • Keith Wrightson
    Pages 28-51

  4. Apprenticeship, Social Mobility and the Middling Sort, 1550–1800

    • Christopher Brooks
    Pages 52-83

  5. Bourgeois Collectivism? Urban Association and the Middling Sort

    • Jonathan Barry
    Pages 84-112

  6. Professions, Ideology and the Middling Sort in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries

    • Christopher Brooks
    Pages 113-140

  7. The Middling Sort in London

    • Peter Earle
    Pages 141-158

  8. The Middling Sort in Eighteenth-Century Politics

    • Nicholas Rogers
    Pages 159-180

  9. The Middling Sort in Eighteenth-Century Colchester: Independence, Social Relations and the Community Broker

    • Shani D’Cruze
    Pages 181-207

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 208-282
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About this book

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.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Middling Sort of People

  • Book Subtitle: Culture, Society and Politics in England 1550-1800

  • Editors: Jonathan Barry, Christopher Brooks

  • Series Title: Themes in Focus

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-23656-5

  • Publisher: Red Globe Press London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Macmillan Publishers Limited 1994

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 288

  • Additional Information: Previously published under the imprint Palgrave

  • Topics: Social History

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