Patricians and Parvenus

Wealth and High Society in Wilhelmine Germany

Inbunden, Engelska, 1994

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Beskrivning

This many-sided study of the wealthy business elite of Wilhelmine Germany is based on comprehensive quantitative data on the 502 wealthiest businessmen of the time, material from public and private papers and 200 autobiographies. Not only business history, but family and social history, gender roles, ethnicity, class relations, consumption patterns and broader historical factors are synthesised in the first coherent view of the social world of the wealthy business elite of Wilhelmine Germany.Selected for the CHOICE list of Outstanding Academic Books for 1995 (Choice current reviews for Academic Libraries)

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1994-08-04
Mått:138 x 216 x 23 mm
Vikt:579 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:350
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9780854963973

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Dolores Augustine, St. John's University, New York

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'... a splendid and informative work of social history that calls orthodox views of the German economic elite in the Wilhelmine period into question. Her work is a fine combination of quantitative and qualitative analysis and presents a portrait of this important group in society that is as convincing in its evidence as it is fascinating in its detail.'Gerald D. Feldman, Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley'This is a highly interesting study on the very rich in the urban, industrial and financial world of Imperial Germany.'Hartmut Kaeble, Professor of Social History, Humboldt-University, Berlin'... a crisp, analytical collective biography of the financial elite in Wilhelmine Germany ... With firm primary research, extensive use of printed resources in English and German, comparative techniques, and imaginative analytical methodology, this work is an excellent model for subsequent social history research.'Choice'Professor Augustine has made a significan

Innehållsförteckning

Profile of the Wilhelmine wealth elite; marriage; family life and power relations within the family; family solidarity, youthful rebellion and the sons' choice of profession; residential patterns, villas, and landed estates; wealthy business families in high society.