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MODERNITY AND BOURGEOIS LIFE
SOCIETY, POLITICS, AND CULTURE IN ENGLAND, FRANCE AND GERMANY SINCE 1750 |
| By: |
Jerrold Seigel |
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Paperback |
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£32.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1107666783 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781107666788 |
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| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
12 April, 2012 |
| Pages: |
638 |
| Description: |
What does it mean to be modern? Jerrold Seigel offers a magisterial account of the development of European modernity. |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
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10 b/w illus. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press |
| Prizes: |
Winner of Laura Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies 2014
Winner of Choice Magazine Outstanding Reference/Academic Book Award 2013 |
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