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German Home Towns: Community, State, and General Estate, 1648-1871

German Home Towns: Community, State, and General Estate, 1648-1871

Walker, Mack
Sheehan, James J.

Paperback

General SociologyGeneral World HistoryGerman History

ISBN10: 0801485088
ISBN13: 9780801485084
Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr
Published: Jun 18 1998
Pages: 496
Weight: 1.53
Height: 1.16 Width: 6.24 Depth: 8.92
Language: English

German Home Towns is a social biography of the hometown Bürger from the end of the seventeenth to the beginning of the twentieth centuries. After his opening chapters on the political, social, and economic basis of town life, Mack Walker traces a painful process of decline that, while occasionally slowed or diverted, leads inexorably toward death and, in the twentieth century, transfiguration. Along the way, he addresses such topics as local government, corporate economies, and communal society. Equally important, he illuminates familiar aspects of German history in compelling ways, including the workings of the Holy Roman Empire, the Napoleonic reforms, and the revolution of 1848.

Finally, Walker examines German liberalism's underlying problem, which was to define a meaning of freedom that would make sense to both the movers and doers at the center and the citizens of the home towns. In the book's final chapter, Walker traces the historical extinction of the towns and their transformation into ideology. From the memory of the towns, he argues, comes Germans' ubiquitous yearning for organic wholeness, which was to have its most sinister expression in National Socialism's false promise of a racial community.

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