Splintered classes : politics and the lower middle classes in interwar Europe
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Splintered classes : politics and the lower middle classes in interwar Europe
Holmes & Meier, 1990
- : cloth
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
In contrast with traditional approaches, which have seen a more or less uniform middleclass response to the political and economic crises of the age of fascism, this comparative study of the politics and ideology of the urban lower middle classes in Europe from 1918 to 1939 rethinks the political history of these groups, stressing the diversity and splintering of middleclass constituencies under the pressures of the interwar period.
Examining these years from the perspective of a broad range of European countries, including England, France, Germany, Italy, and Romania, the writers focus on non-rural lower-middle class groups not only as objects of elite and state manipulation -- the traditional view -- but as active, often violent agents of political conflict. What political positions were available to these groups in Europe after World War I, which did they choose and why? What were the central themes and symbols of the leaders and politicians who supposedly represented them? By exploring how the lower middle classes defined (or failed to define) themselves politically -- the alliances that they formed, the sentiments they articulated, and the interests they pursued and defended -- this informative and provocative book sheds light on a crucial segment of European society between the two world wars.
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