Preface.- Introduction; J.Barry.- 'Sorts of People' in Tudor and Stuart England; K.Wrightson.- Apprenticeship, Social Mobility and the Middling Sort 1550-1800; C.Brooks.- Bourgeois Collectivism? Urban Association and the Middling Sort; J.
Barry.- Professions, Ideology and the Middling Sort in the late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries; C.Brooks.- The Middling Sort in London; P.Earle.- The Middling Sort in Eighteenth Century Politics; N.Rogers.- The Middling Sort in Eighteenth Century Colchester: Independence, Social Relations and the Community Broker; S.
D'Cruze.- Bibliography.- Notes and References.- Notes on Contributors.- Index.