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

by Jerrold E. Seigel

Book Overview

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 original account of the ties between modernity and bourgeois life, arguing that they can be best understood not in terms of the rise and fall of social classes, but as features...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107666783
• ISBN13: 9781107666788
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 638 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"