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The Making of the Middle Class: Toward a Transnational History

The Making of the Middle Class: Toward a Transnational History

López-Pedreros, A. Ricardo
Weinstein, Barbara

Hardcover

Series: Radical Perspectives

General World HistoryPoverty & Social Work

ISBN10: 082235117X
ISBN13: 9780822351177
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Jan 18 2012
Pages: 464
Weight: 1.70
Height: 1.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
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--in 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 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, postcolonialism, modernity, and our neoliberal present.

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