The Middling Sort of People in the Eighteenth-Century English-Speaking World
There were many opportunities for self-advancement in modern Britain, which favoured the rise of the middling orders of people. The successive dynastic crises of 1688 and 1714 led to a reconceptualization of the relationship between the monarch and the people, and the middling orders came to embody...
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| Language: | English |
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Société d'Etudes Anglo-Américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles
2015-12-01
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| Series: | XVII-XVIII |
| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/1718/286 |