Honor, politics and the law in imperial Germany, 1871-1914 /
"Honor in nineteenth-century Germany is usually thought of as an anachronistic aristocratic tradition confined to the duelling elites. In this innovative study Ann Goldberg shows instead how it pervaded all aspects of German life and how, during an era of rapid modernization, it was adapted and...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge [U.K.] ; New York, N.Y. :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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| Series: | New studies in European history.
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| Online Access: | Available via EBSCO eBook Collection |
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| Summary: | "Honor in nineteenth-century Germany is usually thought of as an anachronistic aristocratic tradition confined to the duelling elites. In this innovative study Ann Goldberg shows instead how it pervaded all aspects of German life and how, during an era of rapid modernization, it was adapted and incorporated into the modern state, industrial capitalism, and mass politics. In business, state administration, politics, labor relations, gender and racial matters, Germans contested questions of honor in an explosion of defamation litigation. Dr Goldberg surveys court cases, newspaper reportage, and parliamentary debates, exploring the conflicts of daily life and the intense politicization of libel jurisprudence in an era when an authoritarian state faced off against groups and individuals from 'below' claiming new citizenship rights around a democratized notion of honor and law. Her fascinating account provides a nuanced and important new understanding of the political, legal and social history of imperial Germany"--Provided by publisher |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 215 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511729324 0511729324 9780511726026 0511726023 9780511730160 0511730160 9781107411494 1107411491 9780521198325 0521198321 |