Download or read book The Rise of Middle-Class Culture in Nineteenth-Century Spain written by Jesus Cruz and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2011-12-12 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Jesus Cruz looks at these elements as part of the whole. In The Rise of Middle-Class Culture in Nineteenth-Century Spain he traces the contribution of nineteenth-century bourgeois cultures not only to Spanish modernity, but to the history of Western modernity more broadly.Cruz's study provides key insights for scholars in the fields of Spanish and European studies, including history, literary studies, art history, historical sociology, and political science.