ISBN:
9780582083431
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (276 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Social Orders and Social Classes in Europe Since 1500 : Studies in Social Stratification
DDC:
305.5/094
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
This pioneering survey evaluates the notions of class and order throughout European history since 1500. After a general theoretical section on the concept of orders and class, the book provides discussions and case studies of the nobility, the clergy, the middle classes and the rural and urban proletariat. The studies are drawn from all over Europe, from early modern Castile to late Tsarist Russia. Contributors include Peter Burke, Stuart Woolf, A A Thompson and Joseph Bergin
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; 1 The language of orders in early modern Europe; 2 The concept of class; 3 An anatomy of nobility; 4 Between estate and profession: the clergy in Imperial Russia; 5 Between estate and profession: the Catholic parish clergy of early modern western Europe; 6 The middle classes in late Tsarist Russia; 7 From 'middling sort' to middle class in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century England; 8 Tenant right and the peasantries of Europe under the old regime
Description / Table of Contents:
9 Deferential bitterness: the social outlook of the rural Proletariat in eighteenth-and nineteenth-century England and Wales10 Order, class and the urban poor; 11 A people and a class: industrial workers and the social order in nineteenth-century England; 12 Myths of order and ordering myths; 13 Class and historical explanation; Suggestions for further reading; Notes on contributors; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
