by Sir Richard J. Evans FBA FRSL FRHistS
First published 2013
This collection brings together historians from three nations to study the German middle class across its full spectrum. The scholars examine professional groups, merchants, industrialists, and financiers alongside the bourgeois family structure. Their original research challenges literary portrayals of German bourgeois life with historical evidence. The book explores how middle class values expressed themselves through local pride and the persistent tradition of dueling. Two leading scholars in German studies have assembled these investigations into the social forces that shaped modern Germany. The work provides students of German and European history with fresh perspectives on a class that dominated much of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Genres: history, 20th-century, non-fiction, 19th-century, academic
Vibes: academic, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: historical-non-fiction, social-commentary
Setting: Germany
Period: 19th-Century, 20th-Century
370 pages · Hardcover · Routledge