Matteo Battistini is Professor of U.S. History at the University of Bologna. He has published monographs and articles on American political and intellectual history, including Karl Marx and the Global History of the American Civil War.

• PrefaceAcknowledgments1 The Middle Class between History and Social Sciences1 The (Lower) English Middle Class2 Bourgeoise and Classe Moyenne3 Mittelstand and Neuer Mittelstand4 Crossing the Atlantic2 The American Middle Class A Taken-for-Granted History?1 The Middle Class as a Historiographic Category2 The Middle Class as a Sociological Problem3 The Middle Class of Progressivism4 Brain Workers of the World, Unite!3 The Middle Class as Historical Project1 The Demiurge of the Middle Class2 The New Deal for the Middle Class3 The Crisis of the Middle Class4 The Ideological Battle for the Middle Class5 The Middle Class as Political Concept4 The Rise and Fall of a Fetish1 The Middle Class of Liberalism2 The Movement against the Middle Class3 The New Class of Neoconservatism (and Neoliberalism)4 The Middle Class as a Figure of the Crisis (in Globalisation)ReferencesIndex

Matteo Battistini is Professor of U.S. History at the University of Bologna. He has published monographs and articles on American political and intellectual history, including Karl Marx and the Global History of the American Civil War.

• PrefaceAcknowledgments1 The Middle Class between History and Social Sciences1 The (Lower) English Middle Class2 Bourgeoise and Classe Moyenne3 Mittelstand and Neuer Mittelstand4 Crossing the Atlantic2 The American Middle Class A Taken-for-Granted History?1 The Middle Class as a Historiographic Category2 The Middle Class as a Sociological Problem3 The Middle Class of Progressivism4 Brain Workers of the World, Unite!3 The Middle Class as Historical Project1 The Demiurge of the Middle Class2 The New Deal for the Middle Class3 The Crisis of the Middle Class4 The Ideological Battle for the Middle Class5 The Middle Class as Political Concept4 The Rise and Fall of a Fetish1 The Middle Class of Liberalism2 The Movement against the Middle Class3 The New Class of Neoconservatism (and Neoliberalism)4 The Middle Class as a Figure of the Crisis (in Globalisation)ReferencesIndex