The Making of the Middle Class

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Altri dati

Formato:
Paperback
Editore:
Duke University Press
Anno di pubblicazione
2012
Lingua:
Inglese
Pagine:
448
Dimensioni:
231 X 152
Codice EAN:
9780822351290
Generi:
History, Social & Economic History Social Sciences, Sociology
Altre informazioni:
1 illustration
Curatore:
A. Ricardo Lopez, Barbara Weinstein
Prezzo di copertina:
$ 27,95

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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. They focus on specific middle-class formations around the world - in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas - since the mid-nineteenth century. The contributors 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 trans-nationally through changing, unequal relationships and shifting 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, post-colonialism, modernity, and our neo-liberal present.

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Contributors: Susanne Eineigel, Michael A.Ervin, Inigo Garcia-Bryce, Enrique Garguin, Simon Gunn, Carol E. Harrison, Franca Iacovetta, Sanjay Joshi, Prashant Kidambi, A. Ricardo Lopez, Gisela Mettele, Marina Moskowitz, Robyn Muncy, Brian Owensby, David S. Parker , Mrinalini Sinha, Mary Kay Vaughan, Daniel J. Walkowitz, Keith David Watenpaugh, Barbara Weinstein, Michael O. West

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Both materially grounded and sensitive to notions of subjectivity and discourse, this timely and provocative volume challenges us to historicize the multiple, transnational formations and meanings of the middle class. Modernity itself is thus recast as a set of multiple, entangled, locally rooted processes that did not begin in 'the West' and travel elsewhere, but were mutually constituted and reconstituted in a global and colonial context. Florencia E. Mallon, Chair, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison The Making of the Middle Class is a first-rate collection of essays by top scholars writing on a topic of enormous interest: the middle class as an evolving conception and historical reality. The contributors focus on locales around the world. While the issues that they raise take locally specific forms, their essays converge around shared central questions, giving this stimulating collection a rare intellectual unity and focus. Michael Frisch, University at Buffalo, SUNY