The German bourgeoisie : essays on the social history of the German middle class from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century / edited by David Blackbourn and Richard J. Evans.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The German bourgeoisie : an introduction / David Blackbourn -- Arriving in the upper class : the wealthy business elite of Wilhelmine Germany / Dolores L. Augustine -- The titled businessman : Prussian Commercial Councillors in the Rhineland and Westphalia during the nineteenth-century / Karin Kaudelka-Hanisch -- Family and class in the Hamburg grand bourgeoisie 1815-1914 / Richard J. Evans -- The industrial bourgeoisie and labour relations in Germany 1871-1933 / Dick Geary -- Between estate and profession : lawyers and the development of the legal profession in nineteenth-century Germany / Michael John -- Bourgeois values, doctors, and the state : the professionalization of medicine in Germany 1848-1933 / Paul Weindling -- Localism and the German bourgeoisie : the 'Heimat' movement in the Rhenish Palatinate before 1914 / Celia Applegate -- Bourgeois honour : middle-class duellists in Germany from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century / Ute Frevert -- Liberalism, Europe, and the bourgeoisie 1860-1914 / Geoff Eley -- The middle classes and National Socialism / Thomas Childers.