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Bibliography of Works Cited
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Davidoff, Leonore and Catherine Hall.
Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class, 1780-1850.
London, Hutchinson, 1987.
Davidoff discusses the rise of the middle class between 1780 and 1850, focusing on "Religion and
Ideology," "Economic Structure and Opportunity," and "Everday Life: Gender in Action." Of
particular interest is the discussion on the middle class attitude towards property.
Falgate, Israel.
Tables of Interest for All Rates and Time with the Dayly Income of Annual
Sums from One Pound to One Hundred Thousands Pounds p. Annum and the Amount
of Rents, Sallarys and Pensions from One Pound to Two Thousand Five Hundred
Pounds a Year and Upwards Exactly Computed to the Tenth Part of a Penny by
Israel Falgate at Bank of England.
England: 1700.
This is a document produced in England around 1700. It contains tables of numbers generated for the
Bank of England early in its existence. It is primarily useful as an indicator of the state of
banking at the
time.
Firth, Ann.
Moral Supervision and Autonomous Social Order: Wages and Consumption in
18th-Century Economic Thought.
History of the Human Sciences 15, no. 1 (2002): 39-57.
In this article, Firth discusses various economic concepts related to wages and consumption. She
focuses on the approach taken towards these ideas in the rapidly changing economy of the 18th
Century.
Fryth, Richard.
A Probable Calculation of the Moneys: Which May be Raised by a Tax on
Plate in this Kingdom: as also of the Annual Income to His Majesty, to be
Raised by a Tax on Hats.
London: 1700.
This is a document produced in London around 1700. It contains tables of numbers generated
for the
King and Queen. It is primarily useful as an indicator of the
state of the economy at the
time.
History of the Bank. [http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/natcentral.htm].
June, 2004.
Discusses the rise of the Bank of England beginning in the 17th century. It begins by detailing the
founding of
the bank, the development of paper money and credit, and the national debt. It ends by
discussing inflation and important events in the history of the bank.
Hunt, Margaret R.
The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender, and the Family in England,
1680-1780.
Berklee: University of California Press, 1966.
Hunt presents the late 17th / early 18th Century English family as a context for a discussion on
gender, status, fashion, commerce, and consumption in the time period.
Kidd, Alan and David Nicholls.
The Making of the British Middle Class: Studies of Regional and Cultural
Diversity Since the Eighteenth Century.
Stroud, Gloucestershire : Sutton, 1998.
Kidd and Nicholls together analyze the rise of the middle class in 18th Century England. Their
focus is on how this rise pertains to the increased diversity -- namely, economic diversity -- in
England in the time period that is due to the effective creation of a whole new class of people.
Langford, Paul.
Public Life and the Propertied Englishman, 1689-1978.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991.
Langford reveals the disparity between the ruling upper class and popular politics through
his analysis of everything from novels and poetry to newspapers and sermons from the
18th Century. He successfully, eventually creates a quite complete picture of the political system
of the time.
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