Frank Domurad

Hometown Hamburg (eBook, ePUB)

Artisans and the Political Struggle for Social Order in the Weimar Republic

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Through the study of Hamburg handicraft in the late Weimar Republic "Hometown Hamburg" addresses three intertwined problems in modern German history: the role of institutionalized social, political and cultural continuity versus contingency in the course of modern German development; the impact of conflicting notions of social order on the survival of liberal democracy; and the role of corporate politics in the rise of National Socialism. It provides a theoretical and analytical framework for reintroducing the notion of historical continuity in the study of modern German history. The book also supports the recent challenges to the notion of Hamburg as a liberal economic and political bastion, a "London on the Elbe," in a nation of conservative and authoritarian governmental regimes. Hometown Hamburg demonstrates why "liberal" and "socialist" Hamburg also remained a hotbed of corporate radicalism and underscores the fact that National Socialism was the only political party that presented a coherent vision of a corporate "good society," thereby making it attractive to hometown voters across the entire social spectrum in Hamburg (and in Germany).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. März 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781783089338
• Artikelnr.: 56818898

Autorenporträt

By Frank Domurad

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Continuity in History
1. The Peculiarity of German History: Handwerk versus Handicraft
2. Hamburg: A German Home Town?
3. In Search of Hamburg Handwerk: Figures and Forms
4. The Handicraft Occupational Estate in the Crisis of the Weimar Republic
5. A Constitution without Decision
6. From the Politics of Barter to a Volksgemeinschaft
Conclusion: Continuity in History Revisited
Bibliography
Index.