The making of the middle class: toward a transnational history

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction we shall be all toward a transnational history of the middle class -- Thinking about modernity from the margins: the making of a middle class in colonial India -- The African middle class in Zimbabwe: historical and contemporary perspectives -- Between modernity and backwardness: the case of the English middle class -- ''Aren't we all?'': aspiration, acquisition, and the American middle class -- The gatekeepers: middle-class campaigns of citizenship in early cold war Canada -- Commentary on part I: the making of the middle class and practices of modernity -- The conundrum of the middle-class worker in the twentieth-century united states: Professional-managerial workers' (folk) dance around class -- Becoming middle class: the local history of a global story—colonialbombay, 1890 – 1940 -- Conscripts of democracy: the formation of a professional middle class in Bogotá during the 1950s and early 1960s -- The formation of the revolutionary middle class during the Mexican revolution -- Commentary on part II. Labor professionalization, class formation, and state rule -- A middle-class revolution: the apra party and middle-class identity in Peru, 1931–1956 -- Revolutionary promises encounter urban realities for Mexico city's middle class, 1915–1928 -- Being middle class and being Arab: sectarian dilemmas and middle-class modernity in the Arab middle east, 1908–1936 -- Commentary on part III: Middle-class politics in revolution -- The city as a field of female civic action: Women and middle-class formation in nineteenth-century Germany -- Putting faith in the middle class: The bourgeoisie, catholicism, and post revolutionary France -- Siúticos, huachafos, cursis, arribistas, and gente de medio pelo: Social climbers and there presentation of class in chile and Peru, 1860 – 1930 -- ''Los Argentinos descendemos de los barcos'': The racial articulation of middle-class identity in Argentina, 1920– 1960 -- Commentary on part IV: Middle-class politics and the making of a public sphere: working toward a transnational history of the middle classes -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index

The contributors question the current academic understanding of what is known as the global middle class. They see middle-class formation as transnational and they examine this group through the lenses of economics, gender, race, and religion from the mid-nineteenth century to today