LEADER 04300nam 22005774a 450 001 9910818544703321 005 20230607214849.0 010 $a0-8047-8026-9 024 7 $a10.1515/9780804780261 035 $a(CKB)1000000000005201 035 $a(OCoLC)614674307 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10042967 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000281952 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11214861 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000281952 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10306198 035 $a(PQKB)10719990 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3037473 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3037473 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10042967 035 $a(OCoLC)923699790 035 $a(DE-B1597)581951 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780804780261 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000005201 100 $a20010803d2001 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe middlemost and the milltowns$b[electronic resource] $ebourgeois culture and politics in early industrial England /$fBrian Lewis 210 $aStanford, Calif. $cStanford University Press$d2001 215 $a1 online resource (592 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-8047-4174-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [431]-555) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tACKNOWLEDGMENTS --$tCONTENTS --$tLIST OF TABLES --$tIntroduction --$tChapter 1: Wartime --$tChapter 2: Seriousness --$tChapter 3: Containment --$tChapter 4: Domesticity, Sex, and Marriage --$tChapter 5: Policing and Punishment --$tChapter 6: The Peace of God --$tChapter 7: Regulating Poverty --$tChapter 8: Voluntary Associations --$tChapter 9: Dealing with Labor --$tChapter 10: Ordering the Town --$tChapter 11: Bourgeois Time and Space --$tChapter 12: Peacetime --$tConclusion --$tAppendixes --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aThis book seeks to enrich our understanding of middle-class life in England during the Industrial Revolution. For many years, questions about how the middle classes earned (and failed to earn) money, conducted their public and private lives, carried out what they took to be their civic and religious duties, and viewed themselves in relation to the rest of society have been largely neglected questions. These topics have been marginalized by the rise of social history, with its predominant focus on the political formation of the working classes, and by continuing interest in government and high politics, with its focus on the upper classes and landed aristocracy. This book forms part of the recent attempt, influenced by contemporary ideas of political culture, to reassess the role, composition, and outlook of the middle classes. It compares and contrasts three Lancashire milltowns and surrounding parishes in the early phase of textile industrialization?when the urbanizing process was at its most rapid and dysfunctional, and class relations were most fraught. The book?s range extends from the French Revolution to 1851, the year of the Great Exhibition, which symbolized mid-century stability and prosperity. The author argues that members of the middle class were pivotal in the creation of this stability. He shows them creating themselves as a class while being created as a class, putting themselves in order while being ordered from above. The book shifts attention from the search for a single elusive ?class consciousness? to demonstrate instead how the ideological leaders of the three milltowns negotiated their power within the powerful forces of capitalism and state-building. It argues that, at a time of intense labor-capital conflict, it was precisely because of their diversity, and their efforts to build bridges to the lower orders and upper class, that the stability of the liberal-capitalist system was maintained. 606 $aMiddle class$zEngland$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aMiddle class$zEngland$xHistory$y19th century 615 0$aMiddle class$xHistory 615 0$aMiddle class$xHistory 676 $a305.5/5/0942 700 $aLewis$b Brian$f1965-$01596935 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910818544703321 996 $aThe middlemost and the milltowns$93918483 997 $aUNINA