| Patricians and Parvenus: Wealth and High Society in Wilhelmine Germany Contributor(s): Augustine, Dolores (Author) |
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ISBN: 0854963979 ISBN-13: 9780854963973 Publisher: Berg Publishers OUR PRICE: $198.00 Product Type: Hardcover Published: August 1994 Annotation: In the period 1890-1914, the business elite in Germany turned their economy into the most dynamic in Europe. An older school of biographers tended to view the wealthiest businessmen as unique individuals - pioneers or geniuses who braved the rough waters of the business world, alone or as part of an unusual family. Other biographers placed their subject in the context of the larger questions of German history - the aristocracy's supposed eclipse of the bourgeoisie, anti-Semitism, the rise of corporate capitalism or war aims in World War I. Empirical research on businessmen as a group - an elite or a segment of the bourgeoisie - was long left to political and economic historians; social historians were primarily concerned with the working or lower-middle class. This study takes a new approach, combining comprehensive quantitative data on the 502 wealthiest businessmen of the time with material from public and private papers and 200 autobiographies to produce a many-sided study of this group. Not only business history, but family and social history, gender roles, ethnicity, class relations, consumption patterns, and broader historical factors are synthesized in the first coherent view of the social world of the wealthy business elite of Wihelmine Germany. The extensive bibliography alone will no doubt be an invaluable resource for years to come. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Germany |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 93029862 |
| Physical Information: 0.92" H x 5.64" W x 8.76" (1.10 lbs) 350 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Cultural Region - Central Europe - Cultural Region - Germany |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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) |