The making of the middle class
Subtitle: toward a transnational history of the middle class
By: A. Ricardo López and Barbara Weinstein, editors
Series: Radical perspectives : a radical history review book series; Radical perspectives
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 446
ISBN-13: 9780822351177; 9780822351290
Subjects: Middle class; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : toward a transnational history of the middle class; title: A. Ricardo López with Barbara Weinstein; title: Thinking about modernity from the margins : the making of a middle class in colonial India / Sanjay Joshi; title: The African middle class in Zimbabwe: historical and contemporary perspectives / Michael O. West; title: Between modernity and backwardness : the case of the English middle class / Simon Gunn; title: "Aren't we all?" : aspiration, acquisition, and the American middle class / Marina Moskowitz; title: The gatekeepers : middle-class campaigns of citizenship in early Cold War Canada / Franca Iacovetta; title: The conundrum of the middle-class worker in the twentieth-century United States : the professional managerial workers' (folk) dance around class / Daniel J. Walkowitz; title: Becoming middle class : the local history of a global story, colonial Bombay, 1890-1940 / Prashant Kidambi; title: Conscripts of democracy : the formation of a professional middle class in Bogotá during the 1950s and early 1960s / A. Ricardo López; title: The formation of the revolutionary middle class during the Mexican revolution / Michael A. Ervin; title: A middle-class revolution : the APRA party and middle-class identity in Peru, 1931-1956 / Iñigo García-Brice; title: Revolutionary promises encounter urban realities for Mexico City's middle class, 1915-1928 / Susanne Eineigel; title: Being middle class and being Arab : sectarian dilemmas and middle-class modernity in the Arab Middle East, 1908-1936 / Keith David Watenpaugh; title: The city as a field of female civic action : women and middle-class formation in nineteenth-century Germany / Gisela Mettele; title: Putting faith in the middle class: the bourgeoisie, Catholicism, and postrevolutionary France / Carol E. Harrison; title: Siúticos, huachafos, cursis, arribistas, and gente de medio pelo : social climbers and the representation of class in Chile and Peru, 1860-1930 / David S. Parker; title: "Los argentinos descendemos de los barcos?" : the racial articulation of middle-class identity in Argentina, 1920-1960 / Enrique Garguin; title: Afterword / Mrinalini Sinha.