Two Centuries of Local Autonomy

by Jürgen G. Backhaus and Jürgen Georg Backhaus

One of the last Prussian Reforms during the Napoleonic Era was the constitution of local autonomy for the cities. Proof of its lasting importance is that it was the cities that carried out the deficit-based employment policies of the early 1930s also had to carry the burden of a democratic reconstitution of Germany in the postwar period. After the crushing defeat at Napoleon's hands, likewise the reconstitution of Prussia fell to the cities. Today,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1461402921
• ISBN13: 9781461402923
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 114 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"