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- Condition
- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
- Book Title
- Hometown Hamburg
- Title
- Hometown Hamburg
- Subtitle
- Artisans and the Political Struggle for Social Order in the Weima
- ISBN-10
- 1783089318
- EAN
- 9781783089314
- ISBN
- 9781783089314
- Genre
- History
- Release Year
- 2019
- Release Date
- 03/22/2019
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- GB
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Anthem Press
ISBN-10
1783089318
ISBN-13
9781783089314
eBay Product ID (ePID)
4038523992
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Hometown Hamburg : Artisans and the Political Struggle for Social Order in the Weimar Republic
Subject
Europe / Germany, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Sociology / General, History & Theory, Folk & Outsider Art, World / European, Economic Conditions, General, Small Business, Sociology / Social Theory
Publication Year
2019
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Art, Political Science, Social Science, Business & Economics, Crafts & Hobbies, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
16 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2019-012564
Reviews
Among Hometown Hamburg many fortes is its engagement with the historiography on the lower middle classes. This monograph is essential reading for historians of the lower middle classes. Especially impressive is Domurad's command of the vast historiography and an array of methodologies. -- Sara Sewell, Virginia Wesleyan University, USA, European History Quarterly 50(4): 720-22., Frank Domurad's book casts new light on a much commented upon, but little understood phenomenon: the support offered to Nazism by self-employed artisans. Conventional analysis portrays this as a panicked reaction by the lower middle classes to the onset of the Great Depression, underpinned by the long term issues of competition from industry and the rise of organised labour. Domurad, however, employs a detailed analysis of the social and political lives of Hamburg artisans to demonstrate that they thought of themselves as members of a flourishing institutionalised corporate estate. The flexibility of their conception of Handwerk enabled them to preserve their position even within the rapidly modernising and politically liberal city. Their support for Nazism, he argues, is best understood as a political tactic for obtaining the corporate self-governance promised, but never delivered, under the Weimar constitution, rather than an expression of existential crisis. This is an important book whose sense of, and sensibility to, the mental and material world of the Hamburg artisans allows readers to understand how such a calculation came to be made. --Professor Jonathan Morris, Vice President and Chair of Research Policy Committee, Royal Historical Society, Research Professor in Modern European History, Director, Heritage for Business, School of Humanities, University of Hertfordshire
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
306.30943/51509042
Table Of Content
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.
Synopsis
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)., 'Hometown Hamburg' explores the problem of social order in modern German urban history. It argues that institutionalized normative structures are the bedrock of temporal continuity in German history. In an era of various linguistic and cultural 'turns' historians have lost the theoretical and analytical ability to explain events over the long term. Their accounts and explanations of human activity and historical processes usually rest on an unexamined behaviourist psychological model where simple instrumental self-interest drives individual decision-making. As a result they reduce communal social action to individual preferences conditioned by external contingent events. Such an epistemological viewpoint has prevented historians from taking seriously the notion and reality of a 'b rgerliche' social order, not in the sense of a bourgeois-dominated class system, but in terms of what the historian Mack Walker has defined as a "hometown" conception of communal solidarity. Belief in the value of a b rgerliche social order has provided the institutionalized basis for the remarkable continuity of German and Hamburg handicraft over time. Its norms and values have been shared by forces from all strata of society, who, like artisans, were committed to a 'rooted' notion of local community that in Walker's terminology preserved the 'webs and walls' of occupational estate cohesion and parity in the face of 'outsiders' (Standeslose) or 'disturbers' (St rer). The corporate politics of both occupational estate and the b rgerliche social order in which it was embedded played a key role in the collapse of the Weimar Republic and the rise of National Socialism, and may yet endanger democracy in Germany once again. The division of Hamburg and Germany into irreconcilable social and moral trenches, to use J rgen Kocka's trenchant phraseology, based on adversarial images of social good and social community, produced, in the words of the sociologists Rainer C. Baum and Frank J. Lechner, a society of extreme 'value dissensus', whose members were essentially 'moral strangers' to each other. It was in this anomic context that National Socialism became an acceptable political alternative. Nazi spokesmen intrinsically understood the meaning of Walker's 'webs and walls' of local community and opposed those whom they defined as disturbers of domestic peace and social harmony. National Socialism was able to offer a cross-section of social and economic groups, stretching in a city-state like Hamburg from a free trading commercial elite through the artisan master in his workshop into the ranks of the craft-trained skilled worker in the shipyard and factory, complete and comfortable integration into a very familiar hometown social order - one that they grew up with, whose logic they could understand, whose morality they could trust and whose roots reflected the continuity of history., An exploration of the problem of social order in modern German urban history. Hometown Hamburg explores the role of institutionalised historical continuity in the collapse of urban democracy in the Weimar Republic. 'The publication of this book satisfies a lifetime of research and hard work. Frank Domurad began the research in 1970 when I was a young professor in Cambridge and two chapters were written. He then had a career in public service and resumed research and writing. The final text is a masterly study of an aspect of German history that needed a new treatment. It is a brilliant study.' -- Jonathan Steinberg, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Modern European History (Emeritus) University of Pennsylvania, USA, and Emeritus Fellow, Trinity Hall, Cambridge, UK 'By examining the beliefs, traditions and actions of Hamburg's artisans, Frank Domurad uses a local study to address major questions about the political culture of the Weimar Republic. The result is a well-researched, theoretically informed book that offers new insights into the collapse of Germany's first democracy.' -- Richard Bessel, Professor Emeritus of Twentieth Century History, Department of History, University of York, UK 'Frank Domurad provides a brilliant theoretical and empirical examination of artisans seeking to maintain an accepted place in the German social community. 'Hometown Hamburg' is important both as a history leading to an understanding of the onset of Nazism and for its relevance in comprehending our contemporary political situation.' -- Mark Gould, Professor of Sociology, Haverford College, USA, 'Hometown Hamburg' explores the role of institutionalized historical continuity in the collapse of urban democracy in the Weimar Republic.
LC Classification Number
HD2346.G32H3D66 2019
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