Middle Class: An Intellectual History through Social Sciences

Matteo Battistini is Professor of U.S. History at the University of Bologna. He has published monographs and articles on American political and intellectual history, including Karl Marx and the Global History of the American Civil War.

Preface


Acknowledgments


1 The Middle Class between History and Social Sciences

 1 The (Lower) English Middle Class


 2 Bourgeoise and Classe Moyenne


 3 Mittelstand and Neuer Mittelstand


 4 Crossing the Atlantic




2 The American Middle Class A Taken-for-Granted History?

 1 The Middle Class as a Historiographic Category


 2 The Middle Class as a Sociological Problem


 3 The Middle Class of Progressivism


 4 Brain Workers of the World, Unite!




3 The Middle Class as Historical Project

 1 The Demiurge of the Middle Class


 2 The New Deal for the Middle Class


 3 The Crisis of the Middle Class


 4 The Ideological Battle for the Middle Class


 5 The Middle Class as Political Concept




4 The Rise and Fall of a Fetish

 1 The Middle Class of Liberalism


 2 The Movement against the Middle Class


 3 The New Class of Neoconservatism (and Neoliberalism)


 4 The Middle Class as a Figure of the Crisis (in Globalisation)




References


Index