Title The global bourgeoisie : the rise of the middle classes in the age of empire / edited by Christof Dejung, David Motadel and Jürgen Osterhammel

Published Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2019] ©2019

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 375 pages) Series Princeton scholarship online Princeton scholarship online Contents 1. Worlds of the bourgeoisie / Christof Dejung, David Motadel, Jürgen Osterhammel. Part I: State and class: 2. The rise of the middle class in Iran before the Second World War / H.E. Chehabi -- 3. "The great middle class" in the nineteenth-century United States / Marcus Gräser -- 4. Population planning for a global middle class / Alison Bashford. Part II: Colonialism and class: 5. Modernity, print media, and the middle class in colonial East Africa / Emma Hunter -- 6. Cosmopolitan consumption : domesticity, cooking, and the middle class in colonial India / Utsa Ray -- 7. Bureaucratic civilization : emancipation and the global British middle class / Padraic X. Scanlan. Part III: Capitalism and class: 8. Modern business and the rise of the Japanese middle class / Janet Hunter -- 9. The semiperipheral hand : middle-class service professionals of imperial capitalism / Kris Manjapra. Part IV: Religion and the betterment of the world: 10. The Muslim bourgeoisie and philanthropy in the late Ottoman Empire / Adam Mestyan -- 11. Worlds of a Muslim bourgeoisie : the sociocultural milieu of the Islamic minority in interwar Germany / David Motadel -- 12. From global civilizing missions to racial warfare : class conflicts and the representation of the colonial world in European middle-class thought / Christof Dejung. Part V: Failures and fringes: 13. Asymmetric globality and South American narratives of bourgeois failure / David S. Parker -- 14. The "missing" or "forgotten" middle class of Tsarist Russia / Alison K. Smith -- 15. Chinese middle classes between Empire and Revolution / Sabine Dabringhaus and Jürgen Osterhammel. Part VI: Global social history: 16. Race, culture, and class : European hegemony and global class formation, circa 1800-1950 / Richard Drayton Summary While the nineteenth century has been described as the golden age of the European bourgeoisie, the emergence of the middle class and bourgeois culture was by no means exclusive to Europe. The global bourgeoisie explores the rise of the middle classes around the world during the age of empire. Bringing together eminent scholars, this landmark essay collection compares middle-class formation in various regions, highlighting differences and similarities, and assesses the extent to which bourgeois growth was tied to the increasing exchange of ideas and goods. The contributors indicate that the middle class was from its very beginning, even in Europe, the result of international connections and entanglements. Essays are grouped into six thematic sections: the political history of middle-class formation, the impact of imperial rule on the colonial middle class, the role of capitalism, the influence of religion, the obstacles to the middle class beyond the Western and colonial world, and, lastly, reflections on the creation of bourgeois cultures and global social history. Placing the establishment of middle-class society into historical context, this book shows how the triumph or destabilization of bourgeois values can shape the liberal world order. The Global Bourgeoisie irrevocably changes the understanding of how an important social class came to be Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes Notes In English Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed Subject Middle class. Imperialism -- Social aspects -- History HISTORY -- World. Imperialism -- Social aspects Middle class Middle class -- History. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Dejung, Christof, editor Motadel, David, editor Osterhammel, Jürgen, editor LC no. 2021693966 ISBN 9780691189918 0691189919

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