Analyze the role of middleclass in the making of the new nations
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In Western and many parts of Central Europe the growth of industrial production andtrade meant the growth of towns and the emergence of economic commercial classes.England was industrialised from the second half of the eighteenth century and in Franceand parts of the German states, this took shape only in the nineteenth century. Newsocial groups came into being: a working-class population, and middle classes made up of industrialists, businessmen, professionals. In Central and Eastern Europe thesegroups were smaller in number till late nineteenth century. It was among the educated,liberal middle classes that ideas of national unity following the abolition of aristocraticprivileges gained popularity. For the new middle classes liberalism stood for freedomfor the individual and equality of all before the law.