Download or read book Bureaucrats and Bourgeois Society written by R. Kingston and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-10-19 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1789 and 1848, clerks modified their occupational practices, responding to political scrutiny and state-administration reforms. Ralph Kingston examines the lives and influence of bureaucrats inside and outside the office as they helped define nineteenth-century bourgeois social capital, ideals of emulation, honour, and masculinity.