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Petr Valenta's book presents Richard Dotzauer (1816-1887), a prominent, yet forgotten personality of the Prague business world of the 19th century, an important supporter of German social life and politics in Bohemia. Thanks to the scope of Dotzauer's economic, social and political activities, the biography in a wider context is a probe into the environment of Prague's middle-class elites and Prague's Germans, thereby supplementing the knowledge of research areas that are still only partially mapped in historiography. Dotzauer's life path is surrounded by important processes that transformed the Central European society of the 19th century - the rise of capitalism, the creation of a modern civil society and the gradual promotion of modern nationalism. The individual chapters of the book capture the reflection of these processes both in the entrepreneur's career and in his mentality and lifestyle.