Portable directories [ Print culture ]
… Directories were part of a booming market of services and products which catered to the needs of the emerging middling sort . Some were organised in an alphabetical order while others were structured according to trades and professions. … a wider public sphere. Not only did they fulfil practical functions but more generally they increased the influence of middling sort values on the fabric of social life. 1 The landed elites, whose status and prestige could no longer rely on …
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