The Making of the Middle Class: Toward a Transnational History

Radical Perspectives

by A. Ricardo López (Editor), Barbara Weinstein (Editor)

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.

461 pages, Unknown Binding

First published December 26, 2011