Middle classes
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The Bourgeois experience
Overcoming middle class rage
The watchdogs
Boiling point
Rebels without a cause?
Dreaming identities
Free Love
Les cols blancs
The common people
The British people, 1746-1946
The income of the Chinese gentry
Leisure and class in Victorian England
The income of the Chinese gentry
Families against the city
Confidence men and painted women
Professional people
The crisis of the middle class
The precariously privileged
Black Bourgeoisie
Family, love, and work in the lives of Victorian gentlewomen
The good life
Middle American individualism
Disorderly conduct
The Indian middle classes
Canadian capitalism
The triumph of the middle classes
The making of the English middle class
Bourgeois society in nineteenth-century Europe
Fear of falling
Rulers, Townsmen, and Bazaars
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