Bourgeois culture as a way of life and a lifestyle are omnipresent in Germany even in the 21st century, and along with this phenomenon it still remains attractive to learn more about the bourgeoisie and the bourgeois lifestyle from a historical point of view. This volume is a study of the economic, lifestyle and political aspects of the history of the bourgeoisie, seen as a complex web of spatial, regional, university and scientific coherences.

PD Dr. Stefan Gerber ist Privatdozent am Lehrstuhl für Geschichte des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena. Dr. Werner Greiling ist Professor für Geschichte der Neuzeit/Medien- und Kommunikationsgeschichte in Jena. Dr. Tobias Kaiser ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter der Kommission für die Geschichte des Parlamentarismus und der politischen Parteien. Dr. Klaus Ries ist Professor für Neuere Geschichte/Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte in Jena.

The bourgeois self-concept and way of life is ubiquitous in 21st-century Germany, and its continued presence is paralleled by the appeal of approaching the bourgeois classes and bourgeois way of thinking from a historical perspective again and again. This volume examines the history of the bourgeois classes in terms of economic and national political aspects and the bourgeois way of life, and it also scrutinizes specific spacial and regional problem complexes relating to the history of universities and academia. >