Czech middle-class families and the role of their elites in a small town in the second half of the 19th century

Abstract

The paper deals with the development of bourgeois society in the second half of the 19th century using the example of Czech bourgeois families and the role of their elites in a small town - specifically in Roudnice nad Labem, a town situated on the Czech-German linguistic border.

Keywords

• elites
• middle-class society
• Roudnice nad Labem
• 19th century