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The making of the middle class : toward a transnational history of the middle class /
The contributors question the current academic understanding of what is known as the global middle class. They see middle-class formation as transnational and they examine this group through the lenses of economics, gender, race, and religion from the mid-nineteenth century to today.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2012.
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| Colección: | Radical perspectives.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.