The concluding volume in Peter Gay's magisterial study of the European and American middle classes from the 1820s to the outbreak of World War I.
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Like everything Peter Gay writes, Pleasure Wars is a great delight-and much more! -- Robert Heilbroner
Rich in its accounting for the often surprising details, the necessary 'facts' (among them much newly discovered material), sovereign in its generalizing interpretations, elegant in its presentation, and revisionist in its central thesis, this volume is a 'must' for anyone interested in the history of the 'bourgeois century.' -- Reinhold Brinkmann, Harvard University
Rich in its accounting for the often surprising details, the necessary 'facts' (among them much newly discovered material), sovereign in its generalizing interpretations, elegant in its presentation, and revisionist in its central thesis, this volume is a 'must' for anyone interested in the history of the 'bourgeois century.' -- Reinhold Brinkmann, Harvard University
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Taste is the arbiter of choice, and in the Victorian decades aesthetic choices imposed heavy burdens of decision making on the bourgeoisie. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
bourgeois collectors, pleasure wars, household taste, bourgeois experience, first collectors, bourgeois taste, good bourgeois, most bourgeois Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Henry James, Manchester Guardian, First World War, Louisine Havemeyer, Queen Victoria, Lola Montez, Max Liebermann, New York, Theodor Fontane, William Morris, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Emile Zola, Franz Marc, Free Trade Hall, Hermann Levi, Alfred Krupp, Madame Bovary, Matthew Arnold, Richard Wagner, Vereeniging Rembrandt, Camille Pissarro, Edouard Manet, Edvard Munch, Frank Harris New!
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Taste is the arbiter of choice, and in the Victorian decades aesthetic choices imposed heavy burdens of decision making on the bourgeoisie. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
bourgeois collectors, pleasure wars, household taste, bourgeois experience, first collectors, bourgeois taste, good bourgeois, most bourgeois Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Henry James, Manchester Guardian, First World War, Louisine Havemeyer, Queen Victoria, Lola Montez, Max Liebermann, New York, Theodor Fontane, William Morris, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Emile Zola, Franz Marc, Free Trade Hall, Hermann Levi, Alfred Krupp, Madame Bovary, Matthew Arnold, Richard Wagner, Vereeniging Rembrandt, Camille Pissarro, Edouard Manet, Edvard Munch, Frank Harris New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Impressionism: The First Collectors by Anne Distel in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Hints on Household Taste in Furniture, Upholstery and Other Details by Charles L. Eastlake in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Literary Criticism: Essays on Literature, American Writers, English Writers (The Library of America) (v. 1) by Henry James in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Claude Monet: Life and Art by Professor Paul Hayes Tucker in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Communist Manifesto and Other Revolutionary Writings: Marx, Marat, Paine, Mao Tse-Tung, Gandhi and Others (Dover Thrift Editions) by Robert Blaisdell in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Venus in Exile: The Rejection of Beauty in Twentieth-century Art by Wendy Steiner on page 18, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing (The Empson Lectures) by Margaret Atwood in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century Europe: The Political Culture of Limited Suffrage by Alan Kahan in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Transgressions: The Offences of Art by Anthony Julius in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Jewish Daily Life in Germany, 1618-1945 by Marion A. Kaplan in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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