European Way

Hartmut Kaelble is Professor of Social History at the Humboldt University, Berlin.

“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

• Chapter 1. IntroductionHartmut KaelblePART I: SOCIAL HIERARCHIESChapter 2. The Middle Classes in EuropeJürgen KockaChapter 3. The Landed Aristocracy during the Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-CenturiesMaria MalatestaChapter 4. The Professions in Nineteenth-Century EuropeHannes SiegristChapter 5. The Petite Bourgeoisie and Comparative HistoryGeoffrey CrossickChapter 6. The European Working Classes in the Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-CenturiesDick GearyPART II: SOCIAL PATTERNS AND DYNAMICSChapter 7. A ‘European Family’ in the Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Centuries?Michael MitterauerChapter 8. The History of Consumption in Western Europe in the Nineteenth- and twentieth-CenturiesHeinz-Gerhard HauptChapter 9. Intellectuals in Europe in the Second Half of the Nineteenth-CenturyChristophe CharleChapter 10. Nationalism and Feminism in EuropeIda BlomChapter 11. The Jewish Project of Modernity: Diverse or Unitary?Shulamit VolkovChapter 12. Religion Between State and Society in Nineteenth-Century EuropeHenk van DijkPART III: A GENERAL VIEWChapter 13. Social Particularities of Nineteenth- and Twentieth Century EuropeHartmut KaelbleNotes on the ContributersIndex