The Making of the Middle Class: Toward a Transnational History
- ISBN-10
- 0822351293
- ISBN-13
- 9780822351290
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 446
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-01-18
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Author
- A Ricardo López-Pedreros
Description
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.
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