Bourgeois Society in 19th Century Europe (Paperback, Revised)

The social history of the 19th and 20th centuries has tended to focus on labour and socialist movements and working-class culture. However, due to an increased interest in the 18th and early 19th centuries, bourgeois society has been rediscovered by historians. This has been the theme of a large research project, initiated by Jurgen Kocka, which brought together about one hundred scholars working in history, anthropology, law, literature and sociology from West and East Germany, the United States, Israel and ten other West European countries. This volume contains some of the more important papers, which have been chosen for their special interest to English-speaking scholars and for which Jurgen Kocka has written a special and extensive introduction.