The Middling Sort of People: Culture, Society and Politics in England, 1550-1800

Preface - Introduction; J.Barry - 'Sorts of People' in Tudor and Stuart England; K.Wrightson - Apprenticeship, Social Mobility and the Middling Sort 1550-1800; C.Brooks - Bourgeois Collectivism? Urban Association and the Middling Sort; J.Barry - Professions, Ideology and the Middling Sort in the late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries; C.Brooks - The Middling Sort in London; P.Earle - The Middling Sort in Eighteenth Century Politics; N.Rogers - The Middling Sort in Eighteenth Century Colchester: Independence, Social Relations and the Community Broker; S.D'Cruze - Bibliography - Notes and References - Notes on Contributors - Index