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Finding the Middle‐Ground: The Middling Sort in the Eighteenth Century
Author(s) -
Gauci Perry
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
history compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.121
H-Index - 1
ISSN - 1478-0542
DOI - 10.1111/j.1478-0542.2006.00320.x
Subject(s) - sort , politics , period (music) , psychology , field (mathematics) , social psychology , psychoanalysis , economic history , history , aesthetics , political science , law , art , computer science , mathematics , pure mathematics , information retrieval
Since the 1980s the debate on the impact of the middle classes in eighteenth‐century Britain has helped to transform current interest and thinking on the period. No consensus has been reached on the degree of social and political change at this time, but our understanding of middling experience has been enhanced by a range of new themes and approaches, the resonance of which continues to enliven the field.