The global bourgeoisie: the rise of the middle classes in the age of empire
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on the contributors -- 1. Worlds of the Bourgeoisie / Dejung, Christof / Motadel, David / Osterhammel, Jürgen -- PART I. State and Class -- 2. The Rise of the Middle Class in Iran before the Second World War / Chehabi, H.E. -- 3. "The Great Middle Class" in the Nineteenth-Century United States / Gräser, Marcus -- 4. Population Planning for a Global Middle Class / Bashford, Alison -- PART II. Colonialism and Class -- .5 Modernity, Print Media, and the Middle Class in Colonial East Africa / Hunter, Emma -- 6. Cosmopolitan Consumption: Domesticity, Cooking, and the Middle Class in Colonial India / Ray, Utsa -- 7. Bureaucratic Civilization: Emancipation and the Global British Middle Class / Scanlan, Padraic X. -- PART III. Capitalism and Class -- 8. Modern Business and the Rise of the Japanese Middle Classes / Hunter, Janet -- 9. The Semiperipheral Hand: Middle-Class Service Professionals of Imperial Capitalism / Manjapra, Kris -- PART IV. Religion and the Betterment of the World -- 10. The Muslim Bourgeoisie and Philanthropy in the Late Ottoman Empire / Mestyan, Adam -- 11. Worlds of a Muslim Bourgeoisie: The Sociocultural Milieu of the Islamic Minority in Interwar Germany / Motadel, David -- 12. From Global Civilizing Missions to Racial Warfare: Class Conflicts and the Representation of the Colonial World in European Middle-Class Thought / Dejung, Christof -- PART V. Failures and Fringes -- 13. Asymmetric Globality and South American Narratives of Bourgeois Failure / Parker, David S. -- 14. The "Missing" or "Forgotten" Middle Class of Tsarist Russia / Smith, Alison K. -- 15. Chinese Middle Classes between Empire and Revolution / Dabringhaus, Sabine / Osterhammel, Jürgen -- PART VI. Global Social History -- 16. Race, Culture, and Class: European Hegemony and Global Class Formation, circa 1800–1950 / Drayton, Richard -- Index: Persons, Places, Things