Table of Contents

Part 1 European society and the bourgeoisie: the European pattern and the German case, Juergen Kocka; liberalism and bourgeois society, Dieter Langewiesche; the nobility and the bourgeoisie in Europe, Werner Mosse; businessmen and the bourgeoisie in Western Europe, Youssef Cassis. Part 2 The bourgeoisie in Germany and England: the example of the English middle class, Eric Hobsbawn; associations of workers and bourgeois - an anglo-German comparison, 1820-1870, Christiane Eisenberg; moral standards and business behaviour in 19th-century Germany and England, Ute Frevert; property rights and the status of women in Germany and England, Ursala Vogel. Part 3 The bourgeoisie in Germany and France: the French and German bourgeoisie, 1870-1914, Hartmut Kaelble; the petty bourgeoisie and bourgeois types in France and Germany in the late 19th century, Heinz-Gerhard Haupt; authority relations in German and French enterprises, 1880-1914, Patrick Fridenson; bourgeois liberalism and public health in a Franco-German comparison, Allan Mitchell. Part 4 Special problems and perspectives: the embourgeoisement of the Jews as a paradigm, Schulamit Volkov; German Buergerlichkeit after 1800 - culture as symbolic practice, Wolfgang Kaschuba; the Italian and German bourgeoisie in comparison, Marco Meriggi; the development of the Hungarian bourgeoisie - some east-west comparisons, Gyogi Ranki.

Promotional Information

This provocative book contains the first comprehensive study of 18th and early 19th century bourgeois society by American, European and Israeli scholars in history, anthropology, literature, sociology and law.

About the Author

Jurgen Kocka Professor of History, Free University of Berlin Allan Mitchell Professor of History, University of California, San Diego Translated from the German by Gus Fagan Contributors include E. Hobsbawn, H. Kaelble, U. Frevert and Y. Cassis

Reviews

'The essays are of a high quality-substantial, well-organized, coherent-and in the aggregate bring an impressive range of learning to bear. There are no duds...' Central European History "This is a masterly volume, to which British historians will be rightly indebted." English Historical Review