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• Preface1. The language of orders in early modern Europe Peter Burke2. The concept of class William Reddy3. An anatomy of nobility A L Bush4. Between estate and profession; the clergy in Imperial Russia Gregory L Freeze5. Between estate and profession; the catholic parish clergy of early modern western Europe Joseph Bergin6. The middle classes in late Tsarist Russia Charles E Timberlake7. From 'middling sort' to middle class in the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England John Seed8. Tenant right and the peasantries of Europe under the old regime M L Bush9. Deferential bitterness; the social outlook for rural proleteriat in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England and WalesK D M Snell10. Order, class and urban poorStuart Woolf11. A people and a class: industrial workers and the social order in nineteenth-century England Patrick Joyce12. Myths of order and ordering myths William Doyle13. Class and historical explanation Huw BeynonSuggestions for further readingNotes on contributorsIndex