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Titre(s) : The making of the middle class [Texte imprimé] : toward a transnational history / A. Ricardo López and Barbara Weinstein, editors
Publication : Durham : Duke University Press, 2012
Description matérielle : xi, 446 p. ; 25 cm
Collection : Radical perspectives : a radical history review book series
Lien à la collection : Radical perspectives
Comprend : Introduction : toward a transnational history of the middle class ; A. Ricardo López
with Barbara Weinstein ; Thinking about modernity from the margins : the making of
a middle class in colonial India / Sanjay Joshi ; The African middle class in Zimbabwe:
historical and contemporary perspectives / Michael O. West ; Between modernity and
backwardness : the case of the English middle class / Simon Gunn ; "Aren't we all?"
: aspiration, acquisition, and the American middle class / Marina Moskowitz ; The
gatekeepers : middle-class campaigns of citizenship in early Cold War Canada / Franca
Iacovetta ; The conundrum of the middle-class worker in the twentieth-century United
States : the professional managerial workers' (folk) dance around class / Daniel J.
Walkowitz ; Becoming middle class : the local history of a global story, colonial
Bombay, 1890-1940 / Prashant Kidambi ; Conscripts of democracy : the formation of
a professional middle class in Bogotá during the 1950s and early 1960s / A. Ricardo
López ; The formation of the revolutionary middle class during the Mexican revolution
/ Michael A. Ervin ; A middle-class revolution : the APRA party and middle-class
identity in Peru, 1931-1956 / Iñigo García-Brice ; Revolutionary promises encounter
urban realities for Mexico City's middle class, 1915-1928 / Susanne Eineigel ; Being
middle class and being Arab : sectarian dilemmas and middle-class modernity in the
Arab Middle East, 1908-1936 / Keith David Watenpaugh ; The city as a field of female
civic action : women and middle-class formation in nineteenth-century Germany / Gisela
Mettele ; Putting faith in the middle class: the bourgeoisie, Catholicism, and postrevolutionary
France / Carol E. Harrison ; 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 ; "Los argentinos descendemos de los barcos?" : the racial
articulation of middle-class identity in Argentina, 1920-1960 / Enrique Garguin ;
Afterword / Mrinalini Sinha.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (p. [395]-430) and index
In this Important and timely collection of essays, historians reflect on the middle
class: what it is, why its struggles figure so prominently in discussions of the current
economic crisis, and how it has shaped, and been shaped by, modernity. The contributors
focus on specific middle-class formations around the world-an Africa, Asia, Europe,
the Middle East, and the Americas- since the mid-nineteenth century. They scrutinize
these formations in relation to the practices of modernity, to professionalization,
to revolutionary politics, and to the making of a public sphere. Taken together, their
essays demonstrate that the historical formation of the middle class has been constituted
transnationally through changing, unequal relationships and shilling racial and gender
hierarchies; colonial practices, and religious divisions. That history raises questions
about taking the robustness of the middle class as the measure of a society's stability
and democratic promise. Those questions are among the many stimulated by The Making
of the Middle Class, which invites critical conversation about capitalism, imperialism,
postcolonialism, modernity,, and our neoliberal present
Autre(s) auteur(s) : López, A. Ricardo (1974-....). Éditeur scientifique
Weinstein, Barbara (1952-....). Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Classes moyennes -- 1800-....
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780822351177 (cloth) (alk. paper). - ISBN 082235117X (cloth) (alk. paper). -
ISBN 9780822351290 (pbk.) (alk. paper). - ISBN 0822351293 (pbk.) (alk. paper)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb42734593r
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