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Modernity and Bourgeois Life : Society, Politics, and Culture in England, France and Germany since 1750 /

"To be modern may mean many different things, but for nineteenth-century Europeans 'modernity' suggested a new form of life in which bourgeois activities, people, attitudes and values all played key roles. Jerrold Seigel's panoramic new history offers a magisterial and highly ori...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Seigel, Jerrold E. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction: ends and means
  • Part I. Contours of modernity. 2. Precocious integration : England ; 3. Monarchical centralization, privilege, and conflict : France ; 4. Localism, state-building, and bürgerliche gesellschaft : Germany ; 5. Modern industry, class, and party politics in nineteenth-century England ; 6. France and bourgeois France : from teleocracy to autonomy ; 7. One special path : modern industry, politics, and bourgeois life in Germany
  • Part II. Calculations and lifeworlds. 8. Time, money, capital ; 9. Men and women ; 10. Bourgeois morals : from Victorianism to modern sexuality ; 11. Jews as bourgeois and network people
  • Part III. A culture of means. 12. Public places, private spaces ; 13. Bourgeois and others ; 14. Bourgeois life and the avant-garde ; 15. Conclusion.