Society, Politics, and Culture in England, France and Germany since 1750 / [electronic resource] Seigel, Jerrold creator author. text enk 2012 monographic eng

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1 online resource (638 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). 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. Jerrold Seigel. Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015). Civilization, Modern HT690.E73 S57 2012 305.5/5094 9781139087377 (ebook) http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139087377 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139087377 UkCbUP 110512 20180107143415.0 CR9781139087377