Imagining the Middle Class

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Imagining the Middle Class is written by Dror Wahrman and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0521477107 (ISBN 10) and 9780521477109 (ISBN 13).

Why and how did the British people come to see themselves as living in a society centred around a middle class? The answer provided by Professor Wahrman challenges most prevalent historical narratives: the key to understanding changes in conceptualisations of society, the author argues, lies not in underlying transformations of social structure - in this case industrialisation, which supposedly created and empowered the middle class - but rather in changing political configurations. Firmly grounded in a close reading of an extensive array of sources, and supported by comparative perspectives on France and America, the book offers a nuanced model for the interplay between social reality, politics, and the languages of class.