The Petite Bourgeoisie in Europe 1780-1914: Enterprise, Family and Independence (Routledge Library Editions: The Victorian World) - Hardcover

Crossick, Geoffrey; Haupt, Heinz-Gerhard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138645710 ISBN 13: 9781138645714

Publisher: Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

First published in 1995. Geoffrey Crossick and Heinz-Gerhard Haupt provide a major overview of the social, economic, cultural and political development of the petite bourgeoisie in eighteenth-, nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Europe. 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. This title will be of interest to students of history.

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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 the Author

Crossick is at the University of Essex

Heinz-Gerhard Haupt is professor emeritus at Bielefeld University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1138645710
• ISBN 13: 9781138645714
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 296