Place and Politics: Local Identity, Civic Culture, and German Nationalism in North Germany during the Revolutionary Era

Place and Politics: Local Identity, Civic Culture, and German Nationalism in North Germany during the Revolutionary Era

Author: Katherine Aaslestad

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2005-12-01

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 9047415574

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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.


Localism, Landscape, and the Ambiguities of Place

Localism, Landscape, and the Ambiguities of Place

Author: Coolidge Professor of History and Director of Graduate Studies in History David Blackbourn

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2007-01-01

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0802093183

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What makes a person call a particular place 'home'? Does it follow simply from being born there? Is it the result of a language shared with neighbours or attachment to a familiar landscape? Perhaps it is a piece of music, or a painting, or even a travelogue that captures the essence of home. And what about the sense of belonging that inspires nationalist or local autonomy movements? Each of these can be a marker of identity, but all are ambiguous. Where you were born has a different meaning if, like so many modern Germans, you have moved on and now live elsewhere. Representing the 'national interest' in parliament becomes more difficult when voters demand attention to local and regional issues or when ethnic tensions erupt. In all these situations the landscape of 'home' takes on a more elusive meaning. Localism, Landscape, and the Ambiguities of Place is about the German nation state and the German-speaking lands beyond it, from the 1860s to the 1930s. The authors explore a wide range of subjects: music and art, elections and political festivities, local landscape and nature conservation, tourism and language struggles in the family and the school. Yet they share an interest in the ambiguities of German identity in an age of extraordinarily rapid socio-economic change. These essays do not assume the primacy of national allegiance. Instead, by using the 'sense of place' as a prism to look at German identity in new ways, they examine a sense of 'Germanness' that was neither self-evident nor unchanging.


Witnessing the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in German Central Europe

Witnessing the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in German Central Europe

Author: L. James

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-10-31

Total Pages: 375

ISBN-13: 1137313730

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Drawing on a wide range of primary sources, this volume argues that although the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars are often understood as laying the foundations for total war, many eyewitnesses continued to draw upon older interpretative frameworks to make sense of the armed struggle and attendant political and social upheaval.


Boundaries and their Meanings in the History of the Netherlands

Boundaries and their Meanings in the History of the Netherlands

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2009-06-17

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9047429818

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Traditionally, the term boundary applies to the demarcation between a physical place and another physical place, most commonly associated with lines on a map As the essays in this volume demonstrate, however, a boundary can also function in a more broadly conceptual manner. A boundary becomes not an “imaginary line” but a tool for thinking about how to separate any two elements, whether ideas, events, etc., into categories by which they become comprehensible and distinct. The scholar contributors seek not simply to discern the boundaries, but, and perhaps more importantly, to understand the process of delination, and its consequences. With its maverick history and grass-root political traditions, the Netherlands provides an auspicious setting to examine the historical function of boundaries both real and imagined.


War, Demobilization and Memory

War, Demobilization and Memory

Author: Alan Forrest

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-04-08

Total Pages: 427

ISBN-13: 1137406496

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This volume examines the impact of the wars in the Atlantic world between 1770 and 1830, focusing both on the military, economic, political, social and cultural demobilization that occurred immediately at their end, and their long-term legacy and memory.


Training Socialist Citizens

Training Socialist Citizens

Author: Molly Wilkinson Johnson

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 9004169571

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Drawing on archival, published, and oral history sources, this book analyzes the successes and limitations encountered by the East German state as it used participatory sports programs, sports festivals, and sports spectatorship to transform its population into new socialist citizens.


Jews, Judaism, and the Reformation in Sixteenth-Century Germany

Jews, Judaism, and the Reformation in Sixteenth-Century Germany

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2006-02-01

Total Pages: 606

ISBN-13: 9047408853

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This volume brings together important research on the reception and representation of Jews and Judaism in late medieval German thought, the works of major Reformation-era theologians, scholars, and movements, and in popular literature and the visual arts. It also explores social, intellectual, and cultural developments within Judaism and Jewish responses to the Reformation in sixteenth-century Germany.


The Napoleonic Empire and the New European Political Culture

The Napoleonic Empire and the New European Political Culture

Author: M. Broers

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2012-10-10

Total Pages: 611

ISBN-13: 1137271396

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Napoleon's conquests were spectacular, but behind his wars, is an enduring legacy. A new generation of historians have re-evaluated the Napoleonic era and found that his real achievement was the creation of modern Europe as we know it.


Revisiting Napoleon’s Continental System

Revisiting Napoleon’s Continental System

Author: K. Aaslestad

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-10-29

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 1137345578

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Economic warfare during the Napoleonic era transformed international commerce; redirecting trade and generating illicit commerce. This volume re-evaluates the Continental System through urban and regional case studies that analyze the power triangle of the French, British and neutral powers and their strategies to adapt to trade restrictions.


Sensationalizing the Jewish Question

Sensationalizing the Jewish Question

Author: Barnet P. Hartson

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2005-12-01

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 9047415795

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This book examines a number of sensational trials involving anti-Semitism in early Imperial Germany. Press coverage of these court cases helped to spur public debates about the nature of Judaism and the role and influence of Jews in German society.