The middling sort : commerce, gender, and the family in England, 1680-1780 /

"In a lively study that combines narrative and alternately poignant and hilarious anecdotes with convincing analysis, Margaret R. Hunt offers a view of middling society during the hundred years that separated the Glorious Revolution from the factory age. Thanks to her exploration of many family...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hunt, Margaret R., 1953-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1996.
Series:NetLibrary.
EBSCO eBook Collection.
Subjects:
1600-1799
Middle class > Great Britain > History > 17th century.
Middle class > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Middle class families > Great Britain > History > 17th century.
Middle class families > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Social Class > history
Commerce > history
Gender Identity > history.
Classes moyennes > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Classes moyennes > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Familles de la classe moyenne > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Familles de la classe moyenne > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 18e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Social Classes.
Middle class.
Middle class families.
Middenklassen.
Gezin.
Sekseverschillen.
Handel.
Sociology & Social History.
Social Sciences.
Communities - Social Classes.
Classes moyennes > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire universelle > 17e siècle.
Classes moyennes > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire universelle > 18e siècle.
Great Britain.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Capital, credit, and the family
  • A generation of vipers : prudential virtue and the sons of trade
  • To read, knit, and spin : middling daughters and the family economy
  • "Just in all their dealings" : middling men and the reformation of manners, 1670-1739
  • Eighteenth-century middling women and trade
  • The bonds of matrimony and the spirit of capitalism
  • Print culture and the middling classes : mapping the world of commerce
  • Private order and political virtue : domesticity and the ruling class.

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