Preface-- 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 burgerliche 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.