The Petite Bourgeoisie in Europe 1780-1914: Enterprise, Family and Independence - Hardcover

Crossick, Geoffrey; Haupt, Heinz-Gerhard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138154334 ISBN 13: 9781138154339

Publisher: Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

Crossick and Haupt provide a major overview of the social, economic, cultural and political development of the petite bourgeoisie in modern Europe, a group until now largely neglected by European social historians.
Through comparative analysis the authors examine issues such as the centrality of small enterprise to industrial change, the importance of family and locality to the petit-bourgeois world, the search for stability and status and the associated political move to the right.
Crossick and Haupt have written an invaluable and authoritative assessment of the emergence of a distinctive petit-bourgeois cultural and political identity. It will be of interest to both undergraduate students and academic historians.

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Review:

"[The authors] have written an excellent, even exciting study of the petite bourgeoisie...In short, Crossick and Haupt take on important topics with energy and insight."
-"Economic History Review, 8/96
"A rich fusion of synthesis and research, which effectively captures the variety and complexity of the petit-bourgeois experience in this period."
-"Urban History, 12/96
"The authors are to be praised for their own tenacious primary research effort and for the way in which they have here lucidly combined it with the fruits of others' works...."
-"Business History, 10/96

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1138154334
• ISBN 13: 9781138154339
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 308