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The Middling Sort of People

Culture, Society and Politics in England 1550-1800

Christopher Brooks author Jonathan Barry author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:26th Oct '94

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This volume of essays seeks to offer a radical re-evaluation of most of our preconceptions about the early-modern English social order. The majority of people who lived in early-modern England were neither very rich nor very poor, yet a disproportionate amount of historiography has been directed towards precisely these groups. This book intends to define the term 'middle classes' and treat them as active participants of history, rather than as a simple by-product rising and falling according to others' activities.

ISBN: 9780333540633

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 374g

288 pages