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As commerce thrived between 1780 and 1850, the British middle class adopted the economic customs of the older artisan and upper classes to manage their growing wealth. Families had once conducted business from their homes, now, as middle-class adult males became responsible for providing a separate household where their dependents could live genteel private lives, a new masculine identity emerged, centered on economic skills and increasingly identified with occupation. Early in this period, tasks associated with commerce had been regarded simply as activities, not as identities, and were often performed as private services to wealthy patrons. As middle-class men developed more independent, public ways of doing business, such tasks became associated with occupational titles requiring special qualifications, including systematic training. Formerly, religion and family ties had defined a man`s identity, increasingly, a man was what he did.

Which of the following, if true , would most strengthen the argument about masculine identity presented in the passage?

APrior to 1780, men of the British middle class were most often trained in the occupations of their fathers and grandfathers.
BBy the mid-nineteenth century, new occupations associated with commerce were emerging in Britain for middle-class women.
CIn the eighteenth century, a group of British men of different occupations and classes collaborated in creating the modern credit and investment systems.
DBetween 1780 and 1850, British commercial trade directories increasingly identified middle-class men by precise occupational titles.
EBetween 1780 and 1850, advice books were published instructing British middle-class businessmen how to conduct themselves according to the customs of the upper classes

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