The Making of the British Middle Class

by Kidd, Alan J.; Nicholls, David

• ISBN13: 9780750917803
• ISBN10: 0750917806
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-05-01
• Publisher: Sutton Pub Ltd

Summary

Eighteen leading international authorities present the latest thinking on the history of the British middle classes from the onset of the Industrial Revolution to the present day, opening up new and exciting areas of debate and reanalyzing more traditional interpretations of their cultural practices and institutions.

Table of Contents

Contributors	ix
Acknowledgements	xiii
Introduction: The Making of the British Middle Class?	xv
Alan Kidd
David Nicholls
Praising the Middling Sort? Social Identity in Eighteenth-century British Newspapers	1	(18)
Bob Harris
Not Sprung from Princes: Middling Society in Eighteenth-century West Yorkshire	19	(23)
Stephen Caunce
Who Was Master? Class Relationships in Nineteenth-century Sheffield	42	(16)
Ruth Grayson
Second Metropolis: the Middle Class in Early Victorian Liverpool	58	(14)
John Belchem
Nick Hardy
`A Republic of Quakers': the Radical Bourgeoisie, the State and Stability in Lancashire, 1789--1851	72	(20)
Brian Lewis
Owners and Occupiers: Property, Politics and Middle-class Formation in Early Industrial Lancashire	92	(21)
Michael Winstanley
Reading the Will: Cash Economy Capitalists and Urban Peasants in the 1830s	113	(17)
R.J. Morris
The Platform and the Pulpit: Cultural Networks and Civic Identities in Industrial Towns, c. 1850--70	130	(18)
Robert Gray
Craft, Professional and Middle-Class Identity: Solicitors and Gas Engineers, c. 1850--1914	148	(21)
John Garrard
Vivienne Parrott
From Personal Patronage to Public School Privilege: Social Closure in the Recruitment of Managers in the United Kingdom from the Late Nineteenth Century to 1930	169	(17)
John M. Quail
Britain's Elites in the Interwar Period, 1918--39	186	(17)
W.D. Rubinstein
Neither Metropolitan nor Provincial: the Interwar Middle Class	203	(11)
Richard Trainor
Service, Loyalty and Leadership: the Life Tales of British Coal Masters and the Culture of the Middle Class, c. 1890--1950	214	(14)
Michael Dintenfass
Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory: the Last Post of the Old City Financial Elite, 1945--95	228	(19)
Paul Thompson
Notes	247	(50)
Bibliography of Key Texts	297	(10)
Index	307