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A Very Polite and Commercial People - The Making of the English Middle Class: Business, Society and Family Life in London, 1660–1730. By Peter Earle. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1989. Pp. xiii + 446. $35.00. - The Culture of Capital: Art, Power, and the Nineteenth-Century Middle Class. Edited by Janet Wolff and John Seed. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1988. Pp. ix + 236. $69.95.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 January 2014

Julian Hoppit
Julian Hoppit*
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University College, London
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Journal of British Studies , Volume 30 , Issue 3 , July 1991 , pp. 345 - 349
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Copyright © North American Conference of British Studies 1991

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