Social Orders and Social Classes in Europe since 1500 : Studies in Social Stratification
- London; New York: Routledge, 2013.
- 267 p.
Preface1. The language of orders in early modern Europe Peter Burke 2. The concept of class William Reddy 3. An anatomy of nobility A L Bush 4. Between estate and profession; the clergy in Imperial Russia Gregory L Freeze 5. Between estate and profession; the catholic parish clergy of early modern western Europe Joseph Bergin 6. The middle classes in late Tsarist Russia Charles E Timberlake 7. From 'middling sort' to middle class in the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England John Seed 8. Tenant right and the peasantries of Europe under the old regime M L Bush 9. Deferential bitterness; the social outlook for rural proleteriat in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England and WalesK D M Snell 10. Order, class and urban poorStuart Woolf 11. A people and a class: industrial workers and the social order in nineteenth-century England Patrick Joyce 12. Myths of order and ordering myths William Doyle 13. Class and historical explanation Huw BeynonSuggestions for further readingNotes on contributors