The Global Bourgeoisie

The first global history of the middle class While the nineteenth century has been described as the golden age of the European bourgeoisie, the emergence of the middle class and bourgeois culture was by no means exclusive to Europe. The Global Bourgeoisie explores the rise of the middle classes around the world during the age of empire. Bringin"[An] innovative, intelligent, readable, revolutionary work of global history."---Hartmut Kaelble, Historische Zeitschrift