<span><span><span>Designed for classroom use and nonspecialist readers, this collection brings together some of the most influential texts ever written about Latin America’s middle class. Part One covers key debates in the 1950s and 1960s, when academics and policy-makers questioned whether Latin America’s emerging “middle sectors” would foster democracy, development, and stability. Case studies in Part Two show how those older questions are both answered and challenged by today’s social and cultural historical approaches.</span></span></span>