Modernity and Bourgeois Life

Society, Politics, and Culture in England, France and Germany since 1750

af Jerrold (New York University) Seigel

What does it mean to be modern? In the nineteenth century a consensus emerged that Western Europe was giving birth to a new form of life in which bourgeois activities, people, attitudes and values played a key role. Jerrold Seigel offers a magisterial account of the development of European modernity.