...This chapter discusses the life and the work of Richard Wagner. More than any major artist of the nineteenth century Wagner drew together the currents of social discontent, animosity toward bourgeois life, and aesthetics. At the same time, he transformed himself into a contemporary cultural...

... throughout the continent. With the expansion of colonial society, recreational birdwatching, a leisure activity of urban bourgeois classes, entered the constellation of birding practices in Africa. Living with Africans, Europeans became “whites,” with all the benefits and anxieties that racial definition...

...Hegel represents the apotheosis of the bourgeois world of early modernity in its confidence and optimism. His image of civil society, or burgerliche Gesellschaft, was the site of the rule of law, the market economy, and a world governed by individual self-interest, and free...

...In this book, Steven Smith examines modernity as the site of a unique type of human being entirely unknown to the ancient and medieval worlds that is called the bourgeois. The characteristics and qualities attributed to this new kind of individual by writers like Descartes, Hobbes...

... suburban resident’s ability to progress based on pear tree imagery social mobility Milton John Battersea Crosland T W H Pater Walter Brontë Charlotte aristocracy Sensation Fiction Camberwell Richmond Thames Bourgeois Dead-sea fruit Professional actress Battersea Suburban plots Mary...

... recently by historians investigating the métis people of the region. However, they failed to take into account the role of bourgeois families in the story of American expansion. This book focuses on the actions and pathways of a core group of French bourgeois families, particularly the Chouteau family...

... to the ulterior evolution of the best features in the character of the Soviet man, those features which appeared with particular strength during the “Great Patriotic War.” This involved the vilification of all things bourgeois and the glorification of all things Soviet, particularly Stalin. The Ministry...

... A Petrograd GPU chief Bukharin Nikolai Lezhnev I G Novaia Rossiia journal RTO Russian Technical Society Semashko Nikolai Spetsy “Bourgeois Specialists” Bolshevik support and cultivation of Students and student groups Vsemediksantrud Medical and Sanitary Workers' Union Agricultural Cooperatives...

...This chapter discusses the thought of Friedrich Nietzsche, the most important voice in the revolt against Positivism and the radical critique of bourgeois culture of the nineteenth century. Nietzsche's thought went through at least two stages of development. During the first, he stood closely...

... prospered immediately, and many families would soon move to the new settlement, including the Chouteau family, led by Marie Thérèse Bourgeois Chouteau, the city's founding mother. Abbadie Jean Jacques Blaise d' Chouteau Auguste D'Abbadie Jean Jacques Blaise French and Indian War Illinois Country...

...Despite playing a unique and significant role in the history of American expansion, the francophone merchants of the bourgeois frontier found that the cultural landscape of the region they had helped establish could not accommodate their own distinctive culture. By the 1840s, the language...

... of modernity, however, there has developed a comprehensive counternarrative, for modernity has become inseparable from the doubts we feel about it. The author explores some of the key ideas of the Counter-Enlightenment, particularly Marx’s and Nietzsche’s critiques of the bourgeois as selfish, tepid...

... remained relatively stable. Credit and debt were everyday features of European life. An older historiography saw debt as the road to impoverishment for peasants and other nonelites. In those accounts urban bourgeois offered credit to economically marginal peasants with a view to their eventual default...

... Revolution. In State and Revolution, Lenin predicted that revolutionary victory would result in a proletarian dictatorship and that the new body politic would be realized once the repressive machinery of the bourgeois state was destroyed, a real democracy of the working class was established...