Author: Peter Earle
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520068261
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
This is the first major study of a neglected yet extremely significant subject: the London middle classes in the period between 1660 and 1730, a period in which they created a society and economy that can be seen with hindsight to have ushered in the modern world. Using a wealth of material from contemporary sources--including wills, business papers, inventories, marriage contracts, divorce hearings, and the writings of Daniel Defoe and Samuel Pepys--Peter Earle presents a fully rounded picture of the "middling sort of people," getting to the hearts of their lives as men and women struggling for success in the biggest, richest, and most middle-class city in contemporary Europe. He examines in fascinating and convincing detail the business life of Londoners, from apprenticeship through the problems and potential rewards of different occupational groups, going on to look at middle-class family, social, political and material life--from relationships with spouses, children, servants, and neighbors, to food and clothes and furniture, to sickness, death, and burial. Stimulating, scholarly, and constantly illuminating, this book is an important and impressive contribution to English social history.
The Making of the English Middle Class
Author: Peter Earle
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520068261
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
This is the first major study of a neglected yet extremely significant subject: the London middle classes in the period between 1660 and 1730, a period in which they created a society and economy that can be seen with hindsight to have ushered in the modern world. Using a wealth of material from contemporary sources--including wills, business papers, inventories, marriage contracts, divorce hearings, and the writings of Daniel Defoe and Samuel Pepys--Peter Earle presents a fully rounded picture of the "middling sort of people," getting to the hearts of their lives as men and women struggling for success in the biggest, richest, and most middle-class city in contemporary Europe. He examines in fascinating and convincing detail the business life of Londoners, from apprenticeship through the problems and potential rewards of different occupational groups, going on to look at middle-class family, social, political and material life--from relationships with spouses, children, servants, and neighbors, to food and clothes and furniture, to sickness, death, and burial. Stimulating, scholarly, and constantly illuminating, this book is an important and impressive contribution to English social history.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520068261
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
This is the first major study of a neglected yet extremely significant subject: the London middle classes in the period between 1660 and 1730, a period in which they created a society and economy that can be seen with hindsight to have ushered in the modern world. Using a wealth of material from contemporary sources--including wills, business papers, inventories, marriage contracts, divorce hearings, and the writings of Daniel Defoe and Samuel Pepys--Peter Earle presents a fully rounded picture of the "middling sort of people," getting to the hearts of their lives as men and women struggling for success in the biggest, richest, and most middle-class city in contemporary Europe. He examines in fascinating and convincing detail the business life of Londoners, from apprenticeship through the problems and potential rewards of different occupational groups, going on to look at middle-class family, social, political and material life--from relationships with spouses, children, servants, and neighbors, to food and clothes and furniture, to sickness, death, and burial. Stimulating, scholarly, and constantly illuminating, this book is an important and impressive contribution to English social history.
The English Middle Classes
Author: Roy Lewis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Middle class
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Middle class
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Middle-Class African American English
Author: Tracey Weldon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521895316
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
From its historical development to its current context, this is the first full-length overview of middle-class African American English.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521895316
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
From its historical development to its current context, this is the first full-length overview of middle-class African American English.
Sport and the English Middle Classes, 1870-1914
Author: John Lowerson
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719046513
Category : Middle class
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
This book examines the phenomena which explain the boom in sport among the middle classes in late Victorian England. The author focuses on the extent to which sport became an agent of the development of the middle classes and an instrument of their self-definition. The book does not set out to explain the making of the English middle classes; rather, it examines a significant part of that making.
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719046513
Category : Middle class
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
This book examines the phenomena which explain the boom in sport among the middle classes in late Victorian England. The author focuses on the extent to which sport became an agent of the development of the middle classes and an instrument of their self-definition. The book does not set out to explain the making of the English middle classes; rather, it examines a significant part of that making.
The English Middle Class
Author: Roy Lewis
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780598590350
Category : Middle class
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780598590350
Category : Middle class
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Middle Classes
Author: Simon Gunn
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 1780220731
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
The first general history of the English middle classes, based on BBC TV programme of which Will Self said "No simple overview can do justice to this programme - an exemplary series and mandatory viewing'. Afternoon tea, the Women's Institute, Mrs Beeton, department stores, suburbia, seaside holidays and cycling clubs - all preserves of the great middle class. But where did the middle classes come from? And what makes a person middle class today? Although the term 'middle class' is part of our everyday language, the middle class has not been a feature of the British social scene from time immemorial. Drawing on the memories and life stories of individuals and families, as well as the words of distinguished historians and social commentators, this fascinating portrait of a people traces the roots of middle-class values in Victorian England through to the great educational reforms of the twentieth century. Panoramic and personal, this book provides a compelling picture of this influential social group and looks at what their future might be.
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 1780220731
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
The first general history of the English middle classes, based on BBC TV programme of which Will Self said "No simple overview can do justice to this programme - an exemplary series and mandatory viewing'. Afternoon tea, the Women's Institute, Mrs Beeton, department stores, suburbia, seaside holidays and cycling clubs - all preserves of the great middle class. But where did the middle classes come from? And what makes a person middle class today? Although the term 'middle class' is part of our everyday language, the middle class has not been a feature of the British social scene from time immemorial. Drawing on the memories and life stories of individuals and families, as well as the words of distinguished historians and social commentators, this fascinating portrait of a people traces the roots of middle-class values in Victorian England through to the great educational reforms of the twentieth century. Panoramic and personal, this book provides a compelling picture of this influential social group and looks at what their future might be.
The English Middle Class
Author: Richard Henry Gretton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
The English Middle-class Novel
Author: Thomas Brian Tomlinson
Publisher: London : Macmillan
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Publisher: London : Macmillan
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
A Sixpence at Whist
Author: Janet E. Mullin
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1783270470
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Peering through the windows of private homes and Assembly Rooms alike, this book shines a new light on the middle classes during the long eighteenth century.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1783270470
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Peering through the windows of private homes and Assembly Rooms alike, this book shines a new light on the middle classes during the long eighteenth century.
The English Middle Classes are Alive and Kicking
Author: Ian C. Bradley
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description