Blackbourn, David; Evans, Richard J

• List of tables; Notes on contributors; Preface; Abbreviations; 1. The German bourgeoisie: An introduction David Blackbourn 2. Arriving in the upper class: the wealthy business elite of Wilhelmine Germany Dolores L. Augustine 3. The titled business: Prussian Commercial Councillors in the Rhineland and Westphalia during the nineteenth century Karin Kaudelka-Hanisch 4. Family and class in the Hamburg grand bourgeoisie 1815-1914 Richard J. Evans 5. The industrial bourgeoisie and labour relations in Germany 1871-1933 6. Between estate and profession: lawyers and the development of the legal profession in nineteenth-century Germany Michael John 7. Bourgeois values, doctors, and the state: the professionalization of medicine in Germany 1848-1933 Paul Wiendling 8. Localism and the German bourgeoisie: the ‘Heimat’ movement in the Rhenish Palatinate before 1914 Celia Applegate 9. Bourgeois honour: middle-class duellists in Germany from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century Ute Frevert 10. Liberalism, Europe and the bourgeoisie 1860-1914 Geoff Eley 11. The middle classes and National Socialism Thomas Childers; Index