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Farther down, urban Malays form a modern bourgeoisie, cultivating contacts with the Arab Middle East and keeping only a remote eye on their country estates.
First Davis accuses the bourgeoisie of misdirected anxieties, then he urges them to wake up and worry.
Then the peasants and bourgeoisie were expected to live lives of probity, while the king and his court whored and plundered as they pleased.
While the bourgeoisie’s red-brick or stone houses are clearly inspired by Georgian and Victorian London and grander residences by the country houses and châteaux of continental Europe, the working-class row houses with outside iron staircases leading to upper floors (thus saving space inside) are a more characteristic Montréal feature.
The stubborn aristocracy and high clergy were anxious to protect their ancient privileges; a burgeoning bourgeoisie longed for reforms that would give them greater opportunity; the peasantry was no longer prepared to bear the burden of feudal extortion; and a growing urban populace of artisans groaned under intolerable hardships.