The Middlemost and the Milltowns
Subtitle: Bourgeois Culture and Politics in Early Industrial England
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: November 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 592
ISBN-13: 9780804741743
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1700 to c 1900; Social History; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; History: World; Social Stratification; History - General History; Sociology - General; England; Middle class; Europe - Great Britain - General; History / Great Britain; 18th century; 19th century; History
Description: "This book seeks to enrich our understanding of middle-class life in England during the Industrial Revolution. For many years, questions about how the middle classes earned (and failed to earn) money, conducted their public and private lives, carried out what they took to be their civic and religious duties, and viewed themselves in relation to the rest of society have been largely neglected.

These topics have been marginalized by the rise of social history, with its predominant focus on the political formation of the working classes, and by continuing interest in government and high politics, with its focus on the upper classes and landed aristocracy."--BOOK JACKET.