LEADER 03659oam 2200637 a 450 001 9910495859803321 005 20201104180653.0 010 $a0-585-31298-2 035 $a(CKB)111004366703054 035 $a(MH)008436169-7 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000196013 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12042713 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000196013 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10129912 035 $a(PQKB)11169545 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111004366703054 100 $a19890421d1989 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun#---auuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe making of the English middle class $ebusiness, society, and family life in London, 1660-1730 /$fPeter Earle 210 1$aBerkeley :$cUniversity of California Press,$d1989. 215 $a1 online resource (xiii, 446 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) $cillustrations 311 0 $a0-520-06826-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [415]-438) and index. 330 $aThis 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. 606 $aFamilies$zEngland$zLondon$xHistory 606 $aMiddle class$zEngland$zLondon$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aMiddle class$zEngland$zLondon$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aSociology & Social History$2HILCC 606 $aSocial Sciences$2HILCC 606 $aCommunities - Social Classes$2HILCC 607 $aLondon (England)$xSocial life and customs 607 $aLondon (England)$xEconomic conditions 607 $aLondon (England)$xSocial life and customs$y17th century 607 $aLondon (England)$xSocial life and customs$y18th century 608 $aHistory.$2fast 608 $aElectronic books 615 0$aFamilies$xHistory. 615 0$aMiddle class$xHistory 615 0$aMiddle class$xHistory 615 7$aSociology & Social History 615 7$aSocial Sciences 615 7$aCommunities - Social Classes 676 $a305.5/5/0942109032 700 $aEarle$b Peter$f1937-$0196623 801 0$bDLC 801 1$bDLC 801 2$bDGL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910495859803321 996 $aThe making of the English middle class$92866140 997 $aUNINA 999 $aThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress