Bourgeois Society in 19th Century Europe

Part 1 European society and the bourgeoisie: the European pattern and the German case, Juergen Kocka; liberalism and bourgeois society, Dieter Langewiesche; the nobility and the bourgeoisie in Europe, Werner Mosse; businessmen and the bourgeoisie in Western Europe, Youssef Cassis. Part 2 The bourgeoisie in Germany and England: the example of the English middle class, Eric Hobsbawn; associations of workers and bourgeois - an anglo-German comparison, 1820-1870, Christiane Eisenberg; moral standards and business behaviour in 19th-century Germany and England, Ute Frevert; property rights and the status of women in Germany and England, Ursala Vogel. Part 3 The bourgeoisie in Germany and France: the French and German bourgeoisie, 1870-1914, Hartmut Kaelble; the petty bourgeoisie and bourgeois types in France and Germany in the late 19th century, Heinz-Gerhard Haupt; authority relations in German and French enterprises, 1880-1914, Patrick Fridenson; bourgeois liberalism and public health in a Franco-German comparison, Allan Mitchell. Part 4 Special problems and perspectives: the embourgeoisement of the Jews as a paradigm, Schulamit Volkov; German Buergerlichkeit after 1800 - culture as symbolic practice, Wolfgang Kaschuba; the Italian and German bourgeoisie in comparison, Marco Meriggi; the development of the Hungarian bourgeoisie - some east-west comparisons, Gyogi Ranki.