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The Middle Classes in Europe, 1789–1914

France, Germmany, Italy and Russia

  • Authors
  • Pamela M. Pilbeam
Textbook

Part of the Themes in Comparative History book series (TCH)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-vii
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  2. Who Were the Middle Classes?
    Pamela M. Pilbeam
    Pages 1-22
  3. Economic Interests of the Middle Classes: Entrepreneurs
    Pamela M. Pilbeam
    Pages 23-54
  4. Economic Interests of the Middle Classes: Bourgeois Landowners
    Pamela M. Pilbeam
    Pages 55-73
  5. The Middle Classes and the Professions
    Pamela M. Pilbeam
    Pages 74-106
  6. The Middle Classes and the Bureaucracy
    Pamela M. Pilbeam
    Pages 107-143
  7. Professional Armies and Civilian Militias
    Pamela M. Pilbeam
    Pages 144-172
  8. Education and the Middle Classes
    Pamela M. Pilbeam
    Pages 173-209
  9. The Bourgeois Revolution 1789–1815
    Pamela M. Pilbeam
    Pages 210-234
  10. The Bourgeoisie and Liberalism
    Pamela M. Pilbeam
    Pages 235-293
  11. Conclusion
    Pamela M. Pilbeam
    Pages 294-302
  12. Back Matter
    Pages 303-328
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About this book

Introduction

The term 'class' has been, and still is, a powerful historical concept. Its exact meaning, however, has remained elusive. In this illuminating study, P.M.Pilbeam compares the middle classes in four of the major states in continental Europe - France, Russia, Germany and Italy - from the French Revolution to the first world war, and reveals how complex any useful definition of class must be. '...a most valuable book, a model of what fruitful comparative history should be...Pilbeam's book succeeds brilliantly in summarising all significant research on the middle classes in France, Germany, Italy and Russia from the outbreak of the French Revolution to the First World War...an ideal guide to this subject at university level.' Journal of Historical Geography.

Keywords

Europe history revolution social history

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