| Description |
xiii, 445 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
1. Joseph Henry Oates : a world of madeira and honey -- 2. In search of the British middle class -- 3. Reading the wills : a window on family and property -- 4. The property cycle -- 5. Strategies and the urban landscape -- 6. Women and things and trusts -- 7. Life after death -- 8. Networks and place -- 9. The economic history of the British middle class, 1816-70 -- 10. Conclusion and epilogue |
| Summary |
"This is a study of middle-class behaviour and property relations in English towns in Georgian and Victorian Britain. Through the lens of wills, family papers, property deeds, account books and letters, the author offers a new reading of the ways in which middle-class families survived and surmounted the economic difficulties of early industrial society. He argues that these were essentially 'networked' families created and affirmed by a 'gift' network of material goods, finance, services and support, with property very much at the centre of middle-class survival strategies. His approach combines microhistorical studies of individual families with a broader analysis of the national and even international networks within which these families operated |
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The result is a significant contribution to the history of the middle classes, to economic, business, urban and gender history, and to debates about the place of structural and cultural analysis in historical understanding."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Middle class families -- England -- Leeds -- History.
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Middle class -- England -- Leeds -- History.
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Property -- Social aspects -- England -- Leeds.
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| SUBJECT |
Leeds (England) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80070828 -- Social conditions -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008856
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Leeds (England) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80070828 -- Social conditions -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008858
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| LC no. |
2004049688 |
| ISBN |
0521838088 (hardback) |
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