The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender, and the Family in England, 1680-1780
| Cover/Jacket Design by | Nola Burger |
| Publisher | University of California Press |
| Composition | Maple-Vail Book Manufacturing Group |
| Printed and Bound by | Maple-Vail Book Manufacturing Group |
| Copyright Holder | The Regents of the University of California |
| Format | Hardback |
| Language | English |
| Location | Berkely, California; Los Angeles, California; London, England |
| Copyright | 1996 |
| Pages / Font | 343 pages / New Baskerville |
| Library of Congress Call Number | HT690.G7H85 1996 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification Number | 305.5'0942—dc20 |
| Library of Congress Classification Number | 96-18063 |
| Chapters | Acknowledgments / ix Notes On The Text / xiii Introduction: The Middling Sort / 1 1. Capital, Credit, and the Family / 22 2. A Generation of Vipers: Prudential Virtue and the Sons of Trade / 46 3. To Read, Knit, and Spin: Middling Daughters and the Family Economy - 73 4. "Just in All Their Dealings": Middling Men and the Reformation of Manners, 1670-1739 / 101 5. Eighteenth-Century Middling Women and Trade / 125 6. The Bonds of Matrimony and the Spirit of Capitalism / 147 7. Print Culture and the Middling Classes: Mapping the World of Commerce / 172 8. Private Order and Political Virtue: Domesticity and the Ruling Class / 193 Conclusion / 216 Abbreviations Used In The Notes / 219 Notes / 221 Selected Bibliography / 291 |
| Notes | "Compositor: Maple-Vail Book Mfg. Group Text: 10/12 New Baskerville Display: New Baskerville Printer: Maple-Vail Book Mfg. Group Binder: Maple-Vail Book Mfg. Group" |
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