Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter iii
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction we shall be all toward a transnational history of the middle class 1
5. Part I. The making of the middle class and practices of modernity
6. Thinking about modernity from the margins: the making of a middle class in colonial India 29
7. The African middle class in Zimbabwe: historical and contemporary perspectives 45
8. Between modernity and backwardness: the case of the English middle class 58
9. ‘‘Aren’t we all?’’: aspiration, acquisition, and the American middle class 75
10. The gatekeepers: middle-class campaigns of citizenship in early cold war Canada 87
11. Commentary on part I: the making of the middle class and practices of modernity 107
12. Part II. Labor professionalization, class formation, and state rule
13. The conundrum of the middle-class worker in the twentieth-century united states: Professional-managerial workers’ (folk) dance around class 121
14. Becoming middle class: the local history of a global story—colonialbombay, 1890 – 1940 141
15. Conscripts of democracy: the formation of a professional middle class in Bogotá during the 1950s and early 1960s 161
16. The formation of the revolutionary middle class during the Mexican revolution 196
17. Commentary on part II. Labor professionalization, class formation, and state rule 223
18. Part III. Middle-class politics in revolution
19. A middle-class revolution: the apra party and middle-class identity in Peru, 1931–1956 235
20. Revolutionary promises encounter urban realities for Mexico city’s middle class, 1915–1928 253
21. Being middle class and being Arab: sectarian dilemmas and middle-class modernity in the Arab middle east, 1908–1936 267
22. Commentary on part III: Middle-class politics in revolution 288
23. Part IV. Middle-class politics and the making of the public sphere
24. The city as a field of female civic action: Women and middle-class formation in nineteenth-century Germany 299
25. Putting faith in the middle class: The bourgeoisie, catholicism, and post revolutionary France 315
26. Siúticos, huachafos, cursis, arribistas, and gente de medio pelo: Social climbers and there presentation of class in chile and Peru, 1860 – 1930 335
27. ‘‘Los Argentinos descendemos de los barcos’’: The racial articulation of middle-class identity in Argentina, 1920– 1960 355
28. Commentary on part IV: Middle-class politics and the making of a public sphere: working toward a transnational history of the middle classes 377
29. Afterword 385
30. Bibliography 395
31. Contributors 431
32. Index 435