The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender, and the Family in England 1680-1780

by Margaret R. Hunt

To be one of "the middling sort" in urban England in the late seventeenth or eighteenth century was to live a life tied, one way or another, to the world of commerce. In a lively study that combines narrative and alternately poignant and hilarious anecdotes with convincing analysis, Margaret R. Hunt offers a view of middling society during the hundred years that separated the Glorious Revolution from the factory age. Thanks to her exploration of many...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520202600
• ISBN13: 9780520202603
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 358 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"