Petite Bourgeoisie in Europe 1780-1914

<p>First published in 1995. Geoffrey Crossick and Heinz-Gerhard Haupt provide a major overview of the social economic cultural and political development of the petite bourgeoisie in eighteenth- nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Europe. Through comparative analysis the authors examine issues such as the centrality of small enterprise to industrial change the importance of family and locality to the petit-bourgeois world the search for stability and status and the associated political move to the right. This title will be of interest to students of history. </p>