Place and politics : : local identity, civic culture, and German nationalism in North Germany during the revolutionary era / / by Katherine Aaslestad.

This study examines North Germany during the transformative era of the French Revolution, Napoleonic occupation, and Wars of Liberation; it reveals international exploitation, military occupation, economic destruction of the city-state Hamburg as well as the republic's liberation and post-Napol...

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Superior document:Studies in Central European histories ; 36
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2005]
©2005
Year of Publication:2005
Language:English
Series:Studies in Central European histories ; 36.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Republican Ideal: Commerce and Civic Culture in Late Eighteenth-Century Hamburg
  • 2. Print and the Public in Hamburg
  • 3. Hamburg and the French Revolution: Republican Morality Examined and Celebrated
  • 4. Luxus and Egoismus: The Threat to Hamburg's Civic Identity
  • 5. Hamburg's Quest for Neutrality and the Emergence of Hanseatic Solidarity
  • 6. Hambourg, bonne ville de l'Empire française: Annexation into the Napoleonic Empire
  • 7. The Liberation of Hamburg and Changing Notions of Patriotism
  • 8. Epilogue: Remembering the Wars of Liberation in Nineteenth-Century Hamburg
  • Bibliography
  • Index.