The Making of the Middle Class: Toward a Transnational History

Radical Perspectives

by A. Ricardo López, Barbara Weinstein (Editor)

In this edited collection 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. They challenge the dominant Western definition of modernity and the middle class, and argue that in order to remove the Western and European focus in discussions of modernity people must look toward a reimagining of the entire category and history of the middle class to better shape the discussion of its future.

464 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 26, 2011