Social Orders and Social Classes in Europe Since 1500: Studies in Social Stratification

by Bush,M. L.

• ISBN13: 9780582083431
• ISBN10: 0582083435
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1992-01-20
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Preface

The language of orders in early modern Europe

The concept of class

An anatomy of nobility

Between estate and profession

The clergy in Imperial Russia

Between estate and profession the catholic parish clergy of early modern western Europe

The middle classes in late Tsarist Russia

From 'middling sort' to middle class in the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England

Tenant right and the peasantries of Europe under the old regime

Deferential bitterness the social outlook for rural proleteriat in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England and Wales

Order, class and urban poor

A people and a class: industrial workers and the social order in nineteenth-century England

Myths of order and ordering myths

Class and historical explanation

Suggestions for further reading

Notes on contributors

Index

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