ISBN:
1139380249
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1139087371
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9781139380249
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9781139087377
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (640 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Seigel, Jerrold Modernity and Bourgeois Life : Society, Politics, and Culture in England, France and Germany since 1750
Titel der Quelle:
EBL
DDC:
305.5/5094
Keywords:
Social classes Political aspects
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History
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Civilization, Modern
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Middle class History
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Intellectual life
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Middle class
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Social classes ; Political aspects
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Social conditions
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Bürgertum
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Alltagskultur
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Kulturleben
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HISTORY ; Europe ; General
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Social Classes
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Civilization
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Civilization, Modern
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History
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Europe, Western Social conditions 19th century
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Europe, Western Civilization 19th century
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Europe, Western Intellectual life 19th century
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England
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Frankreich
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Deutschland
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Western Europe
Abstract:
3: MONARCHICAL CENTRALIZATION, PRIVILEGE, AND CONFLICT: FRANCEThe mosaic of privilege; The Old Regime and the limits of reform; The monarchy and the bourgeoisie; Public opinion, state action, and commerce; Revolution, state, and Third Estate; The bourgeois monarchy and its meanings; 4: LOCALISM, STATE-BUILDING, AND BÜRGERLICHE GESELLSCHAFT: GERMANY; Fragmentation, consolidation, and the Bürgertum; Bürgerlichkeit and the networks of Aufklärung; Rulers, Bürger, "movers and doers"; Bürgerliche Gesellschaft probed and mirrored: Hegel, Riehl, Freytag.
Abstract:
5: MODERN INDUSTRY, CLASS, AND PARTY POLITICS IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY ENGLANDIndustrial growth and the limits of precocious integration; Class and middle class; Class, nation, and the divine economy; The advent of modern parties; Party organization, middle-class politics, and the coming of the "new liberalism"; 6: FRANCE AND BOURGEOIS FRANCE: FROM TELEOCRACY TO AUTONOMY; Keeping distance at a distance; The impossible network; Paris and its bourgeoisie before 1850: the post-Revolutionary condition; Expanding the web; Remaking Paris and its bourgeois.
Abstract:
Cover; Modernity and Bourgeois Life; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; PREFACE; 1: INTRODUCTION: ENDS AND MEANS; Modernity, money, networks of means; From teleocracy to autonomy; Networks, classes, individuals; An outline of what follows; Part I: Contours of modernity; 2: PRECOCIOUS INTEGRATION: ENGLAND; The most bourgeois country and the least; Markets, principles, and forms of production; Consumption, industry, and the economy of manufacture; State power, national integration, and public opinion; Divisions and linkages; A digression: empire and nation.
Abstract:
Money and the social order: from private to publicBanking and finance: persons and institutions; Surplus value, capital, and money; 9: MEN AND WOMEN; Separate spheres and relations at a distance; The family as resource and network; Assertiveness and instability in the gender system; Toward autonomy; Achievements and limits; 10: BOURGEOIS MORALS: FROM VICTORIANISM TO MODERN SEXUALITY; Classic moralism and its transformations; The Victorian polyphony; Male and female sexuality, and the "first night"; The 1860s and challenges to anti-sensualism; Toward modern sexuality.
Abstract:
Politics in post-1850 France: teleocracy or republicBourgeois France and modern democracy; The advent of modern parties in France; 7: ONE SPECIAL PATH: MODERN INDUSTRY, POLITICS, AND BOURGEOIS LIFE IN GERMANY; Railroad building and economic transformation; Bürgertum, state, and industry; Parties, interest groups, and politics in the Second Reich; Bourgeois politics: national weakness and local strength; German new liberalism and the problem of hegemony; Part II: Calculations and lifeworlds; 8:TIME, MONEY, CAPITAL; Widening webs and the ordering of time.
Abstract:
What does it mean to be modern? Jerrold Seigel offers a magisterial account of the development of European modernity
Note:
11: jews as bourgeois and network people
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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