A Sermon Preached At The Anniversary Meeting Of The Sons Of The Clergy In The Cathedral Church Of St Paul On May 12 1791 By Joseph Holden Pott To Which Are Added Lists Of The Nobility Clergy And Gentry Who Have Been Stewards For The Feasts Of The Sons Of The Clergy Together With The Names Of The Preachers And The Sums Collected Since 1721

Author : Peter Earle
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520068261
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (682 download)

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Download or read book The Making of the English Middle Class written by Peter Earle and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first major study of a neglected yet extremely significant subject: the London middle classes in the period between 1660 and 1730, a period in which they created a society and economy that can be seen with hindsight to have ushered in the modern world. Using a wealth of material from contemporary sources--including wills, business papers, inventories, marriage contracts, divorce hearings, and the writings of Daniel Defoe and Samuel Pepys--Peter Earle presents a fully rounded picture of the "middling sort of people," getting to the hearts of their lives as men and women struggling for success in the biggest, richest, and most middle-class city in contemporary Europe. He examines in fascinating and convincing detail the business life of Londoners, from apprenticeship through the problems and potential rewards of different occupational groups, going on to look at middle-class family, social, political and material life--from relationships with spouses, children, servants, and neighbors, to food and clothes and furniture, to sickness, death, and burial. Stimulating, scholarly, and constantly illuminating, this book is an important and impressive contribution to English social history.