The Business Elites of Hamburg and Berlin
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9645800 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dolores L Augustine (0000-0001-6453-3365, St. John's University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 2-3 |
| Pages | 132-146 |
| Publication date | 1991-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Central European History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0008-9389 • E-ISSN: 1569-1616 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0008938900018902 |
| OpenAlex | W2050649188 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 13 |
In many respects, Hamburg and Berlin represent two societal models at work in Wilhelmian Germany. Hamburg and the other Hanseatic cities, Lübeck and Bremen, have traditionally been thought to represent bourgeois society as it might have been in Germany as a whole: self-assured, liberal, and antiaristocratic. Historians are generally in agreement with Richard J. Evans in his assertion that “neither the economic activity nor the social world nor finally the political beliefs and actions of the Hamburg merchants corresponded to anything that has ever been defined, however remotely, as ‘feudal.’” Berlin, on the other hand, was dominated by the imperial court and the aristocracy, which, it is said, seduced and fatally weakened not only the business elite of the capital, but in fact the most influential segment of the German bourgeoisie as a whole
Aristocracy (class · Art · Assertion · Bourgeoisie · Economic history · Elite · Feudalism · German · Humanities · Petite bourgeoisie · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Law
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |