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. >