The Global Bourgeoisie: The Rise of the Middle Classes in the Age of Empire PDF
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the global bourgeoisie 125-80861_Dejung_GlobalBourgeoisie_6P.indd 1 9/9/19 2:56 PM 125-80861_Dejung_GlobalBourgeoisie_6P.indd 2 9/9/19 2:56 PM The Global Bourgeoisie the rise of the middle classes in the age of empire Edited by Christof Dejung, David Motadel & Jürgen Osterhammel prince ton university press princet on & oxford 125-80861_Dejung_GlobalBourgeoisie_6P.indd 3 9/9/19 2:56 PM Copyright © 2019 by Prince ton University Press Published by Prince ton University Press 41 William Street, Prince ton, New Jersey 08540 6 Oxford Street, Woodstock, Oxfordshire OX20 1TR press . princeton . edu All Rights Reserved LCCN 2019936039 ISBN 9780691195834 ISBN 9780691177342 (pbk.) British Library Cataloging- in- Publication Data is available Editorial: Eric Crahan, Thalia Leaf, and Pamela Weidman Production Editorial: Debbie Tegarden Cover design: Chris Ferrante Cover credit: Pier of the Hotel de los Pocitos, Montevideo, Uruguay Production: Erin Suydam Publicity: Alyssa Sanford Copyeditor: Gail K. Schmitt This book has been composed in Arno Pro Printed on acid- free paper. ∞ Printed in the United States of Amer i ca 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 125-80861_Dejung_GlobalBourgeoisie_6P.indd 4 9/9/19 2:56 PM contents Illustrations ix Acknowl edgments xi Notes on the Contributors xiii 1 Worlds of the Bourgeoisie 1 Christof Dejung, David Motadel, Jürgen Osterhammel Part I. State and Class 41 2 The Rise of the M iddle Class in Iran before the Second World War 43 H. E. Chehabi 3 “The Great Middle Class” in the Nineteenth- Century United States 64 Marcus Gräser 4 Population Planning for a Global Middle Class 85 Alison Bashford Part II. Colonialism and Class 103 5 Modernity, Print Media, and the Middle Class in Colonial East Africa 105 Emma Hunter v 125-80861_Dejung_GlobalBourgeoisie_6P.indd 5 9/9/19 2:56 PM vi contents 6 Cosmopolitan Consumption: Domesticity, Cooking, and the Middle Class in Colonial India 123 Utsa Ray 7 Bureaucratic Civilization: Emancipation and the Global British Middle Class 143 Padraic X. Scanlan Part III. Capitalism and Class 163 8 Modern Business and the Rise of the Japa nese Middle Classes 165 Janet Hunter 9 The Semiperipheral Hand: Middle- Class Ser vice Professionals of Imperial Capitalism 184 Kris Manjapra Part IV. Religion and the Betterment of the World 205 10 The Muslim Bourgeoisie and Philanthropy in the Late Ottoman Empire 207 Adam Mestyan 11 Worlds of a Muslim Bourgeoisie: The Sociocultural Milieu of the Islamic Minority in Interwar Germany 229 David Motadel 12 From Global Civilizing Missions to Racial Warfare: Class Conflicts and the Repre sen ta tion of the Colonial World in Eu ro pean Middle- Class Thought 251 Christof Dejung 125-80861_Dejung_GlobalBourgeoisie_6P.indd 6 9/9/19 2:56 PM contents vii Part V. Failures and Fringes 273 13 Asymmetric Globality and South American Narratives of Bourgeois Failure 275 David S. Parker 14 The “Missing” or “Forgotten” Middle Class of Tsarist Rus sia 295 Alison K. Smith 15 Chinese Middle Classes between Empire and Revolution 313 Sabine Dabringhaus and Jürgen Osterhammel Part VI. Global Social History 337 16 Race, Culture, and Class: Eu ro pean Hegemony and Global Class Formation, circa 1800–1950 339 Richard Drayton Index: Persons, Places, Things 359 125-80861_Dejung_GlobalBourgeoisie_6P.indd 7 9/9/19 2:56 PM 125-80861_Dejung_GlobalBourgeoisie_6P.indd 8 9/9/19 2:56 PM illustrations 11.1. ‘Id al- Adha cele bration at the Berlin Mosque (1929) 230 16.1. Ivoire Barbarini (6th century BCE) 350 ix 125-80861_Dejung_GlobalBourgeoisie_6P.indd 9 9/9/19 2:56 PM
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