Patriots and Paupers: Hamburg, 1712-1830 [Hardcover]

Mary Lindemann (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 4, 1990 | ISBN-10: 0195061403 | ISBN-13: 978-0195061406

Patriots and Paupers carefully analyzes a crucial juncture in the history of a great city: Hamburg's passage from the pre-modern into the modern world. Despite the relative wealth of historical literature on Reformation Germany and on Germany after unification, few English-language histories have addressed the events of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Mary Lindemann here details issues associated with poor relief--indigency, mendicancy, public health, labor regulation, social control, and disciplining--then uses these as springboards to broader historical debates. She draws out the subtle yet decisive political shift from the paternalistic dirigism� of a government of fathers and uncles to the socio-economic laissez-faire of early liberalism, and locates this political metamorphosis firmly within the framework of Hamburg's dynamic economic development and dramatic demographic growth. She links these political and social changes to the intellectual, cultural, and prosopographical contexts of the German Enlightenment. Far more than a history of poverty and social welfare policies, Patriots and Paupers explores the critical interconnections between economics, demographics, social change, and government in the closing years of the European Old Regime.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Thoroughly researched and widely referenced." --Journal of Modern History

"Distinctive....In this thoroughly researched and widely referenced book, Lindemann is at her best when sympathetically re-presenting the Hamburg patriots of the eighteenth century."--Journal of Modern History

"A rich and satisfying contribution to eighteenth-century German scholarship and to urban history in general....A superb study."--The Historian

"A sophisticated study that accomplishes its goals impressively. Lindemann's book offers valuable insights to scholars interested in the history of the old regimes, the enlightenment, comparative urban and social institutions, as well as issues of public welfare policy."--Journal of Interdisciplinary History

"Offers much in the way of new knowledge about ideological interactions among cameralism, enlightenment, and civic tradition within eighteenth-century urban elites and how these shaped reform policy."--Journal of Social History

About the Author

Mary Lindemann is an Assistant Professor of History at Carnegie Mellon University.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 352 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (October 4, 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0195061403
• ISBN-13: 978-0195061406
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.5 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,231,788 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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