Place and Politics: Local Identity, Civic Culture, and German Nationalism in North Germany During the Revolutionary Era: Local Identity, Civic ... in North Germany During the Revolutionary Era - Couverture rigide

Aaslestad, Katherine

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0391042289 ISBN 13 : 9780391042285

Editeur : Brill Academic Publishers,US, 2005

Synopsis

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-Napoleonic autonomy. Examining shifts within local culture and the role of public opinion on civic morality, this book underscores the relationship between the civic ethics, public language, and collective memory in the construction of political identity and concludes that the transformation in values at the local level ultimately provides the crucial direction in the process of modern nation-building. Throughout the 1800s, the public commemoration and memory of occupation and liberation, rather than the actual Napoleonic experience, shaped the development of German nationalism.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Katherine B. Aaslestad, Ph.D. (1997) University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, is Associate Professor of History at West Virginia University and has published widely on republicanism, civic morality, public memory, and the Napoleonic experience in North Germany.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Brill Academic Publishers,US
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0391042289
• ISBN 13: 9780391042285
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 400
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible