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Bourgeois Society in Nineteenth-Century Europe. Ed. by KockaJürgen and MitchellAllan. Berg, Oxford [etc.] 1993. xi, 468 pp. £39.95. (£17.95.)

BuddeGunilla-Friederike. Auf dem Weg ins Bürgerleben. Kindheit und Erziehung in deutschen und englischen Bürgerfamilien 1840–1914. [Bürgertum, Band 6.] Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen1994. 512 pp. DM 68.00.

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References

1 Kocka, Jürgen (ed.), Bürgertum im 19. Jahrhundert. Deutschland im europäischen Vergleich, 3 vols (Munich, 1988)Google Scholar.

2 For example, Langewiesche, Dieter (ed.), Liberalismus im 19.Jahrhitndert (Göttingen, 1988)CrossRefGoogle Scholar which arose out of a conference held at the Centre in Bielefeld.

3 Principally in the series Bürgertum: Beiträge zur europäischen Gesellschaftsgeschichte of which Budde's book is the sixth volume to appear.

4 Kocka, Jürgen et al. , Bildungsbürgertum im 19.Jahrhundert 4 vols (Stuttgart, 19851989)Google Scholar.

5 To get a sense of the range of research involved in this project, see the three volumes edited by Gall and all published by Oldenbourg in Munich: Stadt und Bürgertum im 19.Jahrhundert (1990); Vom alten zum neuen Bürgertum. Die mitteleuropäische Stadt im Umbruch 1780–1820 (1991); Stadt und Bürgertum im Übergang von der traditionellen zur modernen Gesellschaft (1993).

6 Augustine, Dolores L., Patricians and Parvenus: Wealth and High Society in Wilhelmine Germany (Oxford and Providence, 1994)Google Scholar; Kaudelka-Hanisch, Karin, “The Titled Businessman: Prussian Commercial Councillors in the Rhineland and Westphalia during the Nineteenth Century”, in Blackbourn, D. and Evans, R.J. (eds), Vie German Bourgeoisie: Essays on the Social History of the German Middle Class from the Late Eighteenth to the Early Twentieth Century (London, 1991), pp. 87114Google Scholar.

7 Nipperdey, Thomas, Wie das Bilrgertum die Moderne fand (Berlin, 1988)Google Scholar.

8 The term is Nipperdey's. expressing a perference for this over the striking of judgements by the historian.