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Title:

IMAGINING THE MIDDLE CLASS
THE POLITICAL REPRESENTATION OF CLASS IN BRITAIN, C.1780-1840

By:

Dror Wahrman

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Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0521477107

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9780521477109

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Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

13 July, 1995

Pages:

444

Description:

A radically new interpretation of political and social concepts during the Industrial Revolution in Britain.

Synopsis:

Why and how did the British people come to see themselves as living in a society centred around a middle class? The answer provided by Professor Wahrman challenges most prevalent historical narratives: the key to understanding changes in conceptualisations of society, the author argues, lies not in underlying transformations of social structure - in this case industrialisation, which supposedly created and empowered the middle class - but rather in changing political configurations. Firmly grounded in a close reading of an extensive array of sources, and supported by comparative perspectives on France and America, the book offers a nuanced model for the interplay between social reality, politics, and the languages of class.

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15 b/w illus.

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Cambridge University Press

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