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The Rise of Middle-class Culture in Nineteenth-century Spain
The Rise of Middleclass Culture in Nineteenthcentury Spain Author:Jesus Cruz In his stimulating study, Jesus Cruz examines middle-class lifestyles--generally known as bourgeois culture--in nineteenth-century Spain. Cruz argues that the middle class ultimately contributed to Spain's democratic stability and economic prosperity in the last decades of the twentieth century. — Interdisciplinary in scope, Cruz's work draws upo... more »n the methodology of various disciplines--including material culture, consumer studies, and social history--to investigate class. In recent years, scholars in the field of Spanish studies have analyzed disparate elements of modern middle-class milieu, such as leisure and sociability, but Cruz looks at these elements as part of the whole. He traces the contribution of nineteenth-century bourgeois cultures not only to Spanish modernity but to the history of Western modernity more broadly.
The Rise of Middle-Class Culture in Nineteenth-Century Spain provides key insights for scholars in the fields of Spanish and European studies, including history, literary studies, art history, historical sociology, and political science.« less