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Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 January 2014

Nicholas Rogers
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Journal of British Studies , Volume 32 , Issue 4: Making the English Middle Class, ca. 1700-1850 , October 1993 , pp. 299 - 304
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3 For the latest statement of the patrician/plebs polarity, see Thompson, E. P., Customs in Common (London: Merlin, 1991)Google Scholar, chap. 2.

4 On this theme, see E. P. Thompson, Customs in Common, chaps. 4–5.

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6 These quotations are taken from the Morning Chronicle (December 12–29, 1797) and Cobbett's Parliamentary Debates, 33:1084, 1102–3, 1170–3, 1249Google Scholar. See also Corfield, P. J., “Class by Name and Number in Eighteenth-Century Britain,” History 72 (1987): 38–61CrossRefGoogle Scholar; and Wahrman, Dror, “Virtual Representation: Parliamentary Reporting and Languages of Class in the 1790s,” Past and Present, no. 136 (1992), pp. 82–113Google Scholar.

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