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This pioneering survey evaluates the notions of class and order throughout European history since 1500. After a general theoretical section on the concept of orders and class, the book provides discussions and case studies of the nobility, the clergy, the middle classes and the rural and urban proletariat. The studies are drawn from all over Europe, from early modern Castile to late Tsarist Russia. Contributors include Peter Burke, Stuart Woolf, A A Thompson and Joseph Bergin.
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Preface
1. The language of orders in early modern Europe
Peter Burke2. The concept of class
William Reddy3. An anatomy of nobility
A L Bush4. Between estate and profession; the clergy in Imperial Russia
Gregory L Freeze5. Between estate and profession; the catholic parish clergy of early modern western Europe
Joseph Bergin6. The middle classes in late Tsarist Russia
Charles E Timberlake7. From 'middling sort' to middle class in the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England
John Seed8. Tenant right and the peasantries of Europe under the old regime
M L Bush9. Deferential bitterness; the social outlook for rural proleteriat in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England and Wales
K D M Snell10. Order, class and urban poor
Stuart Woolf11. A people and a class: industrial workers and the social order in nineteenth-century England
Patrick Joyce12. Myths of order and ordering myths
William Doyle13. Class and historical explanation
Huw BeynonSuggestions for further reading
Notes on contributors
Index
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M. L. Bush
