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The middling sort : commerce, gender, and the family in England, 1680-1780 / Margaret R. Hunt.

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"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...

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Main Author: Hunt, Margaret R., 1953-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1996.
Subjects:
Middle class > Great Britain > History > 17th century.
Middle class > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Middle class families > Great Britain > History > 17th century.
Middle class families > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Middle class.
Middle class families.
Great Britain.
1600-1799
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Capital, credit, and the family
  • A generation of vipers : prudential virtue and the sons of trade
  • To read, knit, and spin : middling daughters and the family economy
  • "Just in all their dealings" : middling men and the reformation of manners, 1670-1739
  • Eighteenth-century middling women and trade
  • The bonds of matrimony and the spirit of capitalism
  • Print culture and the middling classes : mapping the world of commerce
  • Private order and political virtue : domesticity and the ruling class.

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