04669nam 2200745 a 450 99624790650331620211103203753.00-520-91694-80-585-06285-410.1525/9780520916944(CKB)111000211186576(dli)HEB00402(SSID)ssj0000084520(PQKBManifestationID)11112670(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000084520(PQKBWorkID)10171126(PQKB)11780994(DE-B1597)569199(DE-B1597)9780520916944(OCoLC)1202625431(MiU)MIU01000000000000003603052(MiAaPQ)EBC30771768(Au-PeEL)EBL30771768(EXLCZ)9911100021118657620020522d1996 ub 0engurmnummmmuuuutxtccrThe middling sort commerce, gender, and the family in England, 1680-1780 /Margaret R. HuntReprint 2020Berkeley University of California Pressc19961 online resource (xiii, 343 p. )Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-520-20260-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-319) and index.Front matter --CONTENTS --ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --NOTES ON THE TEXT --Introduction: The Middling Sort --CHAPTER ONE. Capital, Credit, and the Family --CHAPTER TWO. A Generation of Vipers: Prudential Virtue and the Sons of Trade --CHAPTER THREE. To Read, Knit, and Spin: Middling Daughters and the Family Economy --CHAPTER FOUR. "Just in All Their Dealings": Middling Men and the Reformation of Manners, 1670-1739 --CHAPTER FIVE. Eighteenth-Century Middling Women and Trade --CHAPTER SIX. The Bonds of Matrimony and the Spirit of Capitalism --CHAPTER SEVEN. Print Culture and the Middling Classes: Mapping the World of Commerce --CHAPTER EIGHT. Private Order and Political Virtue: Domesticity and the Ruling Class --Conclusion --ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE NOTES --NOTES --SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHYTo be one of "the middling sort" in urban England in the late seventeenth or eighteenth century was to live a life tied, one way or another, to the world of commerce. 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 papers and court records, Hunt is able to examine what people thought, felt, and valued. She finds that early capitalism and early modern family life were far more insecure than their "classical" models supposed. Commercial needs and social needs coincided to a large extent. The family is central to Hunt's story, and she shows how financial struggles brought conflict, ambiguity, and tension to the home. She investigates the way gender intertwined with class and family hierarchy and the way many businesses survived as precarious successes, secured through the sacrifices made by female as well as male family members. The Middling Sort offers a dynamic portrait of a society struggling to minimize the considerable social and psychic dislocation that accompanied England's launch of a full-scale market economy.ACLS Humanities E-Book.Middle classGreat BritainHistory17th centuryMiddle classGreat BritainHistory18th centuryMiddle class familiesGreat BritainHistory17th centuryMiddle class familiesGreat BritainHistory18th centuryMiddle classHistory17th centuryGreat BritainMiddle classHistory18th centuryGreat BritainMiddle class familiesHistory17th centuryGreat BritainMiddle class familiesHistory18th centuryGreat BritainMiddle classHistoryMiddle classHistoryMiddle class familiesHistoryMiddle class familiesHistoryMiddle classHistoryMiddle classHistoryMiddle class familiesHistoryMiddle class familiesHistory305.5/0942Hunt Margaret R.1953-140832American Council of Learned Societies.MiUMiUBOOK996247906503316The middling sort2346091UNISA