Binding: Paperback
Description: 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 of a common participation in expanding and thickening 'networks of means that linked together distant energies and resources across economic political and cultural life. Exploring the different configurations of these networks in England France and Germany he shows how their patterns gave rise to distinctive forms of modernity in each country and shaped the rhythm and nature of change across spheres as diverse as politics money and finance gender relations morality and literary artistic and musical life.
Title: Modernity And Bourgeois Life Society Politics And Culture In England France And Germany Since 1750
Author(s): Seigel Jerrold (New York University)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Barcode: 9781107666788
Pages: 638 Pages, 10 Halftones, Unspecified
Publication Date: 4/12/2012
Category: History Of Ideas