Modernity and Bourgeois Life: Society, Politics, and Culture in England, France and Germany since 1750 - Jerrold Seigel

What does it mean to be modern? In the nineteenth century a consensus emerged that Western Europe was giving birth to a new form of life in which bourgeois activities, people, attitudes and values played a key role. Jerrold Seigel offers a magisterial account of the development of European modernity.