LEADER 04669nam 2200745 a 450 001 996247906503316 005 20211103203753.0 010 $a0-520-91694-8 010 $a0-585-06285-4 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520916944 035 $a(CKB)111000211186576 035 $a(dli)HEB00402 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000084520 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11112670 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000084520 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10171126 035 $a(PQKB)11780994 035 $a(DE-B1597)569199 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520916944 035 $a(OCoLC)1202625431 035 $a(MiU)MIU01000000000000003603052 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC30771768 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL30771768 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111000211186576 100 $a20020522d1996 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmnummmmuuuu 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe middling sort $ecommerce, gender, and the family in England, 1680-1780 /$fMargaret R. Hunt 205 $aReprint 2020 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc1996 215 $a1 online resource (xiii, 343 p. ) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-520-20260-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 291-319) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tACKNOWLEDGMENTS --$tNOTES ON THE TEXT --$tIntroduction: The Middling Sort --$tCHAPTER ONE. Capital, Credit, and the Family --$tCHAPTER TWO. A Generation of Vipers: Prudential Virtue and the Sons of Trade --$tCHAPTER THREE. To Read, Knit, and Spin: Middling Daughters and the Family Economy --$tCHAPTER FOUR. "Just in All Their Dealings": Middling Men and the Reformation of Manners, 1670-1739 --$tCHAPTER FIVE. Eighteenth-Century Middling Women and Trade --$tCHAPTER SIX. The Bonds of Matrimony and the Spirit of Capitalism --$tCHAPTER SEVEN. Print Culture and the Middling Classes: Mapping the World of Commerce --$tCHAPTER EIGHT. Private Order and Political Virtue: Domesticity and the Ruling Class --$tConclusion --$tABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE NOTES --$tNOTES --$tSELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 330 $aTo be one of "the middling sort" in urban England in the late seventeenth or eighteenth century was to live a life tied, one way or another, to the world of commerce. In a lively study that combines narrative and alternately poignant and hilarious anecdotes with convincing analysis, Margaret R. Hunt offers a view of middling society during the hundred years that separated the Glorious Revolution from the factory age. Thanks to her exploration of many family papers and court records, Hunt is able to examine what people thought, felt, and valued. She finds that early capitalism and early modern family life were far more insecure than their "classical" models supposed. Commercial needs and social needs coincided to a large extent. The family is central to Hunt's story, and she shows how financial struggles brought conflict, ambiguity, and tension to the home. She investigates the way gender intertwined with class and family hierarchy and the way many businesses survived as precarious successes, secured through the sacrifices made by female as well as male family members. The Middling Sort offers a dynamic portrait of a society struggling to minimize the considerable social and psychic dislocation that accompanied England's launch of a full-scale market economy. 410 0$aACLS Humanities E-Book. 606 $aMiddle class$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aMiddle class$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aMiddle class families$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aMiddle class families$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aMiddle class$xHistory$y17th century$zGreat Britain 606 $aMiddle class$xHistory$y18th century$zGreat Britain 606 $aMiddle class families$xHistory$y17th century$zGreat Britain 606 $aMiddle class families$xHistory$y18th century$zGreat Britain 615 0$aMiddle class$xHistory 615 0$aMiddle class$xHistory 615 0$aMiddle class families$xHistory 615 0$aMiddle class families$xHistory 615 0$aMiddle class$xHistory 615 0$aMiddle class$xHistory 615 0$aMiddle class families$xHistory 615 0$aMiddle class families$xHistory 676 $a305.5/0942 700 $aHunt$b Margaret R.$f1953-$0140832 712 02$aAmerican Council of Learned Societies. 801 0$bMiU 801 1$bMiU 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996247906503316 996 $aThe middling sort$92346091 997 $aUNISA