ISBN:
9780520202603
,
0520202600
,
9780520916944
,
0520916948
,
0585062854
,
9780585062853
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xiii, 343 pages)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
[NetLibrary]
Series Statement:
[EBSCO eBook Collection]
Parallel Title:
Print version Middling sort
DDC:
305.50942
Keywords:
Middle class History
;
17th century
;
Great Britain
;
Middle class History
;
18th century
;
Great Britain
;
Middle class families History
;
17th century
;
Great Britain
;
Middle class families History
;
18th century
;
Great Britain
;
Great Britain
;
Middle class History 18th century
;
Middle class families History 17th century
;
Middle class families History 18th century
;
Middle class History 17th century
;
Middle class History 17th century
;
Middle class families History 18th century
;
Middle class History 18th century
;
Middle class families History 17th century
;
Social Class history
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Commerce history
;
Gender Identity history
;
Middle class families
;
Sociology & Social History
;
Social Sciences
;
Communities - Social Classes
;
Middenklassen
;
Gezin
;
Sekseverschillen
;
Handel
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Classes moyennes ; Grande-Bretagne ; Histoire universelle ; 17e siècle
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Classes moyennes ; Grande-Bretagne ; Histoire universelle ; 18e siècle
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Social Classes
;
Middle class
;
History
;
Great Britain
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books History
Abstract:
"In a lively study that combines narrative and alternately poignant and hilarious anecdotes with convincing analysis, Margaret R. Hunt offers a view of middling society during the hundred years that separated the Glorious Revolution from the factory age. Thanks to her exploration of many family papers and court records, Hunt is able to examine what people thought, felt, and valued. She finds that early capitalism and early modern family life were far more insecure than their "classical" models supposed. ... The family is central to Hunt's story, and she shows how financial struggles brought conflict, ambiguity, and tension to the home. She investigates the way gender intertwined with class and family hierarchy and the way many businesses survived as precarious successes, secured through the sacrifices made by female as well as male family members. The Middling Sort offers a dynamic portrait of a society struggling to minimize the considerable social and psychic dislocation that accompanied England's launch of a full-scale market economy."--Publisher description
Abstract:
Capital, credit, and the family -- A generation of vipers : prudential virtue and the sons of trade -- To read, knit, and spin : middling daughters and the family economy -- "Just in all their dealings" : middling men and the reformation of manners, 1670-1739 -- Eighteenth-century middling women and trade -- The bonds of matrimony and the spirit of capitalism -- Print culture and the middling classes : mapping the world of commerce -- Private order and political virtue : domesticity and the ruling class.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-319) and index. - Description based on print version record
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