In this important and timely collection of essays, historians
reflect on the middle class: what it is, why its struggles figure
so prominently in discussions of the current economic crisis, and
how it has shaped, and been shaped by, modernity. The contributors
focus on specific middle-class formations around the world-in
Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas-since the
mid-nineteenth century. They scrutinize these formations in
relation to the practices of modernity, to professionalization, to
revolutionary politics, and to the making of a public sphere. Taken
together, their essays demonstrate that the historical formation of
the middle class has been constituted transnationally through
changing, unequal relationships and shifting racial and gender
hierarchies, colonial practices, and religious divisions. That
history raises questions about taking the robustness of the middle
class as the measure of a society's stability and democratic
promise. Those questions are among the many stimulated by The
Making of the Middle Class, which invites critical conversation
about capitalism, imperialism, postcolonialism, modernity, and our
neoliberal present. Contributors. Susanne Eineigel, Michael
A.Ervin, Inigo Garcia-Bryce, Enrique Garguin, Simon Gunn, Carol E.
Harrison, Franca Iacovetta, Sanjay Joshi, Prashant Kidambi, A.
Ricardo Lopez, Gisela Mettele, Marina Moskowitz, Robyn Muncy, Brian
Owensby, David S. Parker, Mrinalini Sinha, Mary Kay Vaughan, Daniel
J. Walkowitz, Keith David Watenpaugh, Barbara Weinstein, Michael O.
West
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