The German Bourgeoisie: Essays on the Social History of the German Middle Class from the Late Eighteenth to the Early Twentieth Century (Routledge Revivals)
Richard J. Evans, David Blackbourn
Language: English
Pages: 371
ISBN: 2:00259589
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
First published in 1991, this collection of original studies by British, German and American historians examines the whole range of modern German bourgeoisie groups, including professional, mercantile, industrial and financial bourgeoisie, and the bourgeois family.
Drawing on original research, the book focuses on the historical evidence as counterpoint to the well-known literary accounts of the German bourgeoisie. It also discusses bourgeois values as manifested in the cult of local roots and in the widespread practice of duelling.
Edited by two of the most respected scholars in the field, this important reissue will be of value to any students of modern German and European history.
interest. They present( 1 the values that were embodied, for example, in schools or in hygiene regulations, as a means by which the allegedly short-sighted, selfish, or sectional attitudes of lower social dass es could be countered, and those dasses themselves 'civilized'. Similar views can be found among the increasingly self-confident bourgeois professionals of nineteenthcentury Germany, most obviously perhaps among the doctors. 44 One of the most important institutions through which bourgeois
of History at the Free University of Berlin. Her history of duelling in modern Germany was published in 1991. Since 1992 she has been Professor of History at the University of Konstanz. Dick Geary was born in Leicester in 1945 and studied History at the University of Cambridge, where he was a Research Fellow at Emmanue1 College. From 1973 to 1989 he taught at the University of Lancaster, and from 1984 to 1986 was Research Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Ruhr University,
home ... Others use officers as fillers, as an attractive garnish. They invite them because they are clever and can dan ce well. 45 According to J ules Huret, J ewish hostesses in Berlin usually invited two or three officers to parties 'out of snobbishness'.% A number of businessmen had personal contact with Kaiser Wilhelm 11, and thus enjoyed the opportunity to inftuence decision-making directly at the highest level. These included Max Esser, the Hamburg bankers Max Warburg and Max von
authorities, as well as chambers of commerce, on the granting of the tide. For the period 1830-1918 I have identified all those who received the tide Commercial Councillor in the Prussian province of Westphalia, together with the administrative district of Düsseldorf in the Rhine Province. This provides a total of 673 businessmen. For comparative purposes, I have also looked at a control group of Councillors from Berlin and the surrounding area, and from the agrariandomina ted province of East
administration of the economy in the Prussian reforms of 1807, the original meaning of the Commercial Councillor title became obsolete. 21 The title remained, but became a me ans by which the state gave honorary recognition to deserving members of the commercial and business dasses. After the failure of the liberal reform ideas of Stein and Hardenberg, who had considered the possible participation of citizens in the administration ('National representation'), titles acquired a new function that
