The painting, with its ten-foot width, was intended both for exhibition halls and the homes of America's emergent millionaire class.
His development programs brought some prosperity for an emergent middle class.
Much of the time and effort that Flaubert spends detailing the customs of the rural French people shows them aping an urban, emergent middle class.
His rule attempted to create a synthesis between the Muslim landowners and the emergent Christian commercial classes.
One theme that recurs in his photographs was the emergent black middle class, which he captured using traditional techniques in often idealistic images.
And yet, even the newly emergent black middle class is missing out.
The authors call black graduates of elite institutions "the backbone of the emergent black middle class" and say that their influence extends beyond the workplace.
Long accustomed to color televisions and washing machines, lately even buying apartments, China's emergent middle class has watched as car prices fall and brands multiply.
In urban parts of the continent, an emergent middle class is having fewer children at rates comparable with Europeans.
Such a conflict is bound to dominate politics, as control of government policy is necessary if valuable resources are to be acquired by an emergent capitalist class.