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Book Synopsis A good social history of Europe has yet to be written though, given the developments over the last few decades, this seems more urgent than ever before. This volume presents an important step forward in that it brings together eight internationally known social historians from Europe and Israel, each of whom offer an overview of some key themes in European history during the last two centuries. While dealing with the great changes of this period, the authors reveal the commonalities that link European societies together but also important differences at a national level.
Trade Review “This volume does not merely add to the author’s earlier works on the same topic. It is far more ambitious, as it develops a much more nuanced argument that seeks to push the boundaries of how the social history of Europe might be written…a handbook that provides succinct and well-structured summaries of key areas of European Social history, broadly defined. Each chapter can be read by itself and provides the reader with a competent overview…a very useful and in many ways stimulating book for students and scholars alike.” · Bulletin of the German Historical Institute London
Table of Contents Chapter 1. Introduction
Hartmut Kaelble
PART I: SOCIAL HIERARCHIES
Chapter 2. The Middle Classes in Europe
Jürgen Kocka
Chapter 3. The Landed Aristocracy during the Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Centuries
Maria Malatesta
Chapter 4. The Professions in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Hannes Siegrist
Chapter 5. The Petite Bourgeoisie and Comparative History
Geoffrey Crossick
Chapter 6. The European Working Classes in the Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Centuries
Dick Geary
PART II: SOCIAL PATTERNS AND DYNAMICS
Chapter 7. A ‘European Family’ in the Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Centuries?
Michael Mitterauer
Chapter 8. The History of Consumption in Western Europe in the Nineteenth- and twentieth-Centuries
Heinz-Gerhard Haupt
Chapter 9. Intellectuals in Europe in the Second Half of the Nineteenth-Century
Christophe Charle
Chapter 10. Nationalism and Feminism in Europe
Ida Blom
Chapter 11. The Jewish Project of Modernity: Diverse or Unitary?
Shulamit Volkov
Chapter 12. Religion Between State and Society in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Henk van Dijk
PART III: A GENERAL VIEW
Chapter 13. Social Particularities of Nineteenth- and Twentieth Century Europe
Hartmut Kaelble
Notes on the Contributers
Index
