Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource
,
HTML; Digitalisierungsvorlage: Primärausgabe
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Oakland, Calif. Univ. of California 2003 eScholarship editions
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Watts, Sheldon J. [Rezension von: Earle, Peter, The Making of the English Middle Class: Business, Society and Family Life in London, 1660-1730] 1991
DDC:
305.5/5/0942109032
Keywords:
Middle class History 17th century
;
Middle class History 18th century
;
Families History
;
London (England) Social life and customs 18th century
;
London (England) Economic conditions
;
London (England) Social life and customs 17th century
;
England
;
Mittelstand
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
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.
Note:
A digital reproduction is available from E-Editions, a collaboration of the University of California Press and the California Digital Library's eScholarship program
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