{"product_id":"the-making-of-the-middle-a-ricardo-lzepez-pedreros-9780822351177","title":"The Making of the Middle Class: Toward a Transnational History","description":"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 \u003ci\u003eThe Making of the Middle Class\u003c\/i\u003e, which invites critical conversation about capitalism, imperialism, postcolonialism, modernity, and our neoliberal present.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContributors\u003c\/i\u003e. Susanne Eineigel, Michael A.Ervin, Iñigo García-Bryce, Enrique Garguin, Simon Gunn, Carol E. Harrison, Franca Iacovetta, Sanjay Joshi, Prashant Kidambi, A. Ricardo López, 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e A. Ricardo López-Pedreros\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 082235117X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822351177\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/18\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 464\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.00w x 1.50d","brand":"A. Ricardo López-Pedreros","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086972563711,"sku":"9780822351177","price":129.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b81b9e10-2772-4539-b4bb-1964ef80b04b.jpg?v=1769097568","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-making-of-the-middle-a-ricardo-lzepez-pedreros-9780822351177","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}