5. Constructing the Public Sphere: Associations, Disputes, and Parliamentary Politics

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. ILLUSTRATIONS, MAP, FIGURE ix
4. TABLES xi
5. PREFACE xiii
6. ABBREVIATIONS AND CONVENTIONS xvii
7. INTRODUCTION
8. 1. Theory and Methods 3
9. 2. The Middling Sort and Their World 19
10. Part I. Process: The Making of a Middle-Class Experience
11. Introduction 45
12. 3. Economic and Cultural Change in Halifax’s Textile Industry 51
13. 4. Loans and Luxuries: Setting the Textile Industry in Context 82
14. Part II. Crystallization: The Making of a Middle-Class Consciousness
15. Introduction 115
16. 5. Constructing the Public Sphere: Associations, Disputes, and Parliamentary Politics 121
17. 6. Constructing the Private Sphere: The Family and Sociability 164
18. Conclusion
19. 7. The Middle Class and Their World 191
20. 8. Implications and Speculations 222
21. INDEX 237