The German bourgeoisie : essays on the social history of the German middle class from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century
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The German bourgeoisie : essays on the social history of the German middle class from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century
Routledge, 1993
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Includes bibliographical notes
Includes index
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Description
The German bourgeoisie has received a consistently bad press from historians through the decades. It has been blamed for succumbing to the lure of titles and honours, for being enticed away from its historic committment to liberal values, for aping the aristocracy, for political indifference, for fear of democracy and distrust of the modern world. Yet until recently there has been surprisingly little written about the German bourgeoisie from the point of view of the social historian. This collection of essays by British, German, and American historians aims to remedy that deficiency. Bringing together original research, it tackles the central question of the extent to which the bourgeoisie was politically weaker or socially more subservient to the aristocracy than its counterparts in Britain and France. Framed by wide-ranging essays on the place of the bourgeoisie in German history and politics and in the so-called "Sonderweg" debate, are studies of the monied and propertied mercantile, industrial, and financial bourgeoisie, the bourgeois family, and educated bourgeois groups.
Table of Contents
1. The German Bourgeoisie - An Introduction, David Blackbourn 2. Arriving in the Upper Class - the Wealthy Business Elite of Wilhelmine Germany, Dolores L. Augustine 3. The Titled Businessman - Prussian Commercial Councillors in the Rhineland and Westphalia during the 19th Century, Karin Kaudelka-Hanischen 4. Family and Class in the Hamburg Grand Bourgeoisie 1815-1914, Richard J. Evans 5. The Industrial Bourgeoisie and Labour Relations in Germany 1871-1933, Dick Geary 6. Betweens in Estate and Profession - Lawyers and the Development of the Legal Profession in 19th-Century Germany, Michael John 7. Bourgeois Values, Doctors, and the State - the Professionalization of Medicine in Germany 1848-1933 8. Localism and the German Bourgeoisie - the `Heimat' Movement in the Rhenish Palatinate Before 1914, Celia Applegate 9. Bourgeois Honour - Middle-Class Duellists in Germany From the Late 18th to the Early 20th Century, Ute Frevert 10. Liberalism, Europe, and the Bourgeoisie 1860-1914, Geoff Eley 11. The Middle Classes and National Socialism, Thomas Childers.
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