The Transformation of Civic Identity and Local Patriotism in Hamburg, 1790 to 1815

At the same time the cataclysmic international events stimulated the emergence of a new local identity--Hanseatic solidarity. The city's need to defend its sovereignty and neutrality during the wars of the French Revolution and later Napoleonic conquest prompted Hamburg to unite with the cites of Bremen and Lubeck to improve their common chances of political and economic survival by gaining international protection of their independence. Hamburg, therefore, emerged in 1814 with a new narrowly defined notion of patriotism that marginalized its previous ethical code and emphasized defense from tyranny and a new local identity celebrating commercial Hanseatic solidarity. The decline in traditional communal patriotism combined with Hanseatic solidarity complemented the development of a new civic ideology: economic liberalism.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

History

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Aaslestad-Lambertson, Katherine Barbara

Contributors dc:contributor

• Schroeder, Paul W.

• Literature, Germanic

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI9737027

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/84722