Patriots and Paupers: Hamburg, 1712-1830

by Mary Lindemann

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195061403
• ISBN13: 9780195061406
• Release Date: October 1990
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.6"