Title: The middling sort
Subtitle: commerce, gender, and the family in England, 1680-1780
First published: 1996
Description: To be one of "the middling sort" in urban England in the late seventeenth or eighteenth century was to live a life tied, in one way or another, to the world of commerce. In a lively study that combines convincing analysis with alternately poignant and hilarious anecdote, Margaret R. Hunt offers an original view of middling society during the hundred years that separated the Glorious Revolution from the factory age.

Thanks to her exploration of a wealth of family papers and court records, Hunt is able to look beyond events - what the new commercial classes did - and examine what they thought, felt, and valued.
Subjects: Middle class, Middle class families, History, Middle class, great britain, Social Class, Commerce, Gender Identity, Classes moyennes, Histoire, Familles de la classe moyenne, SOCIAL SCIENCE, Social Classes, Middenklassen, Gezin, Sekseverschillen, Handel, Sociology & Social History, Social Sciences, Communities - Social Classes, Histoire universelle
Places: Great Britain
Time periods: 17th century, 18th century
LC classification: HT690.G7 H85 1996