Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Contents xi
5. Introduction 1
6. I. Country Houses and Their Owners in Hertfordshire, 1540-1879 56
7. II. Religion and Occupational Mobility in Boston, 1880-1963 124
8. III. Social Mobility and Political Radicalism: The Case of the French Revolution of 1789 159
9. IV. How Protest Modernized in France, 1845-1855 192
10. V. Congressional Elections 256
11. VI. Some Dimensions of Power in the Thirty-Seventh Senate 285
12. VII. The Disintegration of the Conservative Party in the 1840s: A Study of Political Attitudes 319
13. VIII. Expenditures in American Cities 347
14. IX. The EiBciency EjOFeets of Federal Land Policy, 1850-1900: A Report of Some Provisional Findings 390
15. Appendix 419
16. The Contributors 424
17. Index 427