The Transformation of Civic Identity and Local Patriotism in Hamburg, 1790 to 1815
Aaslestad-Lambertson, Katherine Barbara
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Description
Title
The Transformation of Civic Identity and Local Patriotism in Hamburg, 1790 to 1815
Author(s)
Aaslestad-Lambertson, Katherine Barbara
Issue Date
1997
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Schroeder, Paul W.
Department of Study
History
Discipline
History
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Literature, Germanic
Language
eng
Abstract
At the same time the cataclysmic international events stimulated the emergence of a new local identity--Hanseatic solidarity. The city's need to defend its sovereignty and neutrality during the wars of the French Revolution and later Napoleonic conquest prompted Hamburg to unite with the cites of Bremen and Lubeck to improve their common chances of political and economic survival by gaining international protection of their independence. Hamburg, therefore, emerged in 1814 with a new narrowly defined notion of patriotism that marginalized its previous ethical code and emphasized defense from tyranny and a new local identity celebrating commercial Hanseatic solidarity. The decline in traditional communal patriotism combined with Hanseatic solidarity complemented the development of a new civic ideology: economic liberalism.
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