The Global Bourgeoisie: The Rise of the Middle Classes in the Age of Empire

397 Pages·2019·11.882 MB·English

by  Christof Dejung, David Motadel, Jürgen Osterhammel

the global bourgeoisie
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The Global Bourgeoisie
the rise of the middle classes
in the age of empire
Edited by Christof Dejung,
David Motadel &
Jürgen Osterhammel
prince ton university press
princet on & oxford
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contents
Illustrations ix
Acknowl edgments xi
Notes on the Contributors xiii
1 Worlds of the Bourgeoisie 1
Christof Dejung, David Motadel, Jürgen Osterhammel
Part I. State and Class 41
 2 The Rise of the M iddle Class in Iran before
the Second World War 43
H. E. Chehabi
 3 “The Great Middle Class” in the Nineteenth- Century
United States 64
Marcus Gräser
 4 Population Planning for a Global Middle Class 85
Alison Bashford
Part II. Colonialism and Class 103
 5 Modernity, Print Media, and the Middle Class
in Colonial East Africa 105
Emma Hunter
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 6 Cosmopolitan Consumption: Domesticity, Cooking,
and the Middle Class in Colonial India 123
Utsa Ray
 7 Bureaucratic Civilization: Emancipation and the
Global British Middle Class 143
Padraic X. Scanlan
Part III. Capitalism and Class 163
 8 Modern Business and the Rise of the Japa nese Middle Classes 165
Janet Hunter
 9 The Semiperipheral Hand: Middle- Class Ser vice Professionals
of Imperial Capitalism 184
Kris Manjapra
Part IV. Religion and the Betterment
of the World 205
 10 The Muslim Bourgeoisie and Philanthropy in the Late
Ottoman Empire 207
Adam Mestyan
 11 Worlds of a Muslim Bourgeoisie: The Sociocultural Milieu
of the Islamic Minority in Interwar Germany 229
David Motadel
 12 From Global Civilizing Missions to Racial Warfare:
Class Conflicts and the Repre sen ta tion of the Colonial World
in Eu ro pean Middle- Class Thought 251
Christof Dejung
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contents vii
Part V. Failures and Fringes 273
 13 Asymmetric Globality and South American Narratives
of Bourgeois Failure 275
David S. Parker
 14 The “Missing” or “Forgotten” Middle Class of Tsarist Rus sia 295
Alison K. Smith
 15 Chinese Middle Classes between Empire and Revolution 313
Sabine Dabringhaus and Jürgen Osterhammel
Part VI. Global Social History 337
 16 Race, Culture, and Class: Eu ro pean Hegemony
and Global Class Formation, circa 1800–1950 339
Richard Drayton
Index: Persons, Places, Things 359
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illustrations
11.1. ‘Id al- Adha cele bration at the Berlin Mosque (1929) 230
16.1. Ivoire Barbarini (6th  century BCE) 350
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