The Middling Sort of People: Culture, Society and Politics in England, 1550-1800.

Abstract

Preface - Introduction J.Barry - 'Sorts of People' in Tudor and Stuart England K.Wrightson - Apprenticeship, Social Mobility and the Middling Sort 1550-1800 C.Brooks - Bourgeois Collectivism? Urban Association and the Middling Sort J.Barry - Professions, Ideology and the Middling Sort in the late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries C.Brooks - The Middling Sort in London P.Earle - The Middling Sort in Eighteenth Century Politics N.Rogers - The Middling Sort in Eighteenth Century Colchester: Independence, Social Relations and the Community Broker S.D'Cruze - Bibliography - Notes and References - Notes on Contributors - Index