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URBAN LIBERALISM IN IMPERIAL GERMANY
FRANKFURT AM MAIN, 1866-1914 |
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Jan Palmowski |
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ISBN 10: |
0198207506 |
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9780198207504 |
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OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
Pub. date: |
13 May, 1999 |
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Oxford Historical Monographs |
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406 |
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This book challenges a central assumption in the history of imperial Germany, of unworldly German liberals surrendering their ideals to an authoritarian German state. Through an intensive study of Frankfurt am Main, one of Germany's most progressive cities, the author highlights instead the sophistication of liberals in local government. He argues that the problem lay not in the weaknesses of German liberals but in Germany's rigid federal constitution, whichprevented the renewal of liberalism from the grass roots. |
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Debates about Liberalism in imperial Germany have focused almost exclusively on the national level. This book investigates liberal politics in local government; the only sphere in which liberals had direct access to power throughout Germany. Through the study of one of Germany's most progressive cities, Frankfurt am Main, Jan Palmowski examines more generally the processes of politicization and policy formulation at the local level. He argues that in Frankfurt as elsewhere, local affairs had become politicized not around 1900, as is generally assumed, but by the 1870s. Once in power, the liberals' concern for religion, social policy, and education, as well as their skilful use of fiscal policy shows that liberals in Germany were as sophisticated as liberals in Britain or France. Even in the face of an authoritarian state structure, German liberals received and made use of freedom for renewal and reform. German liberalism was not inherently weak. Instead, the crucial problem lay in the country's complicated federal structure, which made it impossible to transfer innovations from the local level to the state and national levels. |
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UK |
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Clarendon Press |
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