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Hamburg: the German city of laissez-faire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2010

John Breuilly
John Breuilly
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University of Manchester
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The Historical Journal , Volume 35 , Issue 3 , September 1992 , pp. 701 - 712
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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References

1 Kraus, A., Die Unterschichten Hamburgs in der ersten Halfte dts 19. Jahrkunderts: Entstehung, Struktur und Lebensverhalmisse - Eitu hisUniich-itatistudu Unttrsuckwig (Stuttgart, 1965)Google Scholar.

2 The PG has been well-studied, most recently by Kopiztsch, Franklin, especially in his book Grundzüge einer Sozialgeschiehte der Aufklärung in Hamburg wut Altona (2nd rev. edn, Hamburg, 1990)Google Scholar. A society with exactly the same name was established in London in 1752. For the shift in the meaning of ‘art’ which parallels what happens in Germany see Williams, R., Keywords (Glasgow, 1981), pp. 32–5Google Scholar; and idem, Culture and Society 1780–1850 (Harmondsworth, 1963), pp. 13–22.

3 Quoted in Freudenthal, H., Vereine in Hamburg. Em Beitrag zur Gtschithtt md Volkskunde Geselligkeit (Hamburg, 1968), p. 40Google Scholar.

4 See now, Grower, K., ‘Wilde Ehen.’ Zu einer Lebensform der sozialen Unterschicken fahrhvnderi am Beisfnel Hamburgs (Unpublished Magisterarbcit, Hamburg, 1989)Google Scholar.

5 For Hudtwalckcr's arguments see STAH, 332–8: Metdewesen, B12, ‘Revision der Vcrordnung in Beziehung auf den Gesinde vom 30 Dezember 1833’ [1837–8] - ‘Entwurf einer Relation’ (24 Jan. 1837).

6 STAH 332–8: Meldewesen, B55, ‘Anderungen und Durchfuhrung der Vorschriften des Meldeund Passwcsens’ [1851–84], Kirchenpaucr's report from Berlin of 19 Sept. 1867. See also an earlier report of Sept. 1865 worrying about a flood of immigrants with the abolition of the guilds.

7 Ibid.

8 Evans has extended this analysis more recently in an essay, ‘Family and class in the Hamburg grand bourgeoisie, 1815–1914’, in The German bourgeoisie, eds. Blackbourn, D. & Evans, R. J. (London, 1991), pp. 115–39Google Scholar.

9 The title deliberately echoes that of the study by Schramm, Percy Ernst, Hamburg, Deuischlamd und die Welt (Munich, 1943)Google Scholar.

10 Precisely in (hr field of intervention and public health, are the interesting comparison by Mitchell, Allan, ‘Bürgerlicher Liberalismus und Volksgcsundheit im deutsch-franzbsischen Vergleich 1870–1914’, in Bürgertum im ly. Jahrhundert: Deutschland im europaischen Vergleuh, ed. Kocka, J. (3 vols., Munich, 1988), III. 395–417Google Scholar.

11 STAH 332–7: Slactsangehörigkeisaufsicht, Bi, ‘Vorschrift für diejenigen die das Bürgerrccht nachsuchen’.