ライプツィヒと選帝侯国ザクセンの商業的政治的発展 The Soul of Commerce : Credit, Property, and Politics in Leipzig, 1750-1840 (Studies in Central European Histories)

Beachy, Robert

Brill Academic Pub（2005/12発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 248 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780391041424
• DDC分類 330.943212205

基本説明

Focusing on Electoral Saxony, the analysis demonstrates how the commercial city of Leipzig shaped the Saxon Enlightenment and then had a powerful influence on reforming the territorial state, a catalytic role in the introduction of a Saxon consitutional monarchy after 1830.

Full Description

This volume provides a new interpretation of the social and cultural context that shaped German political reforms from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century. Focusing on Electoral Saxony, the analysis demonstrates how the commercial city of Leipzig shaped the Saxon Enlightenment and then had a powerful influence on reforming the territorial state. The study presents extensive archival research to develop a careful account of Leipzig's social and political history and then argues persuasively that the city played a catalytic role in the introduction of a Saxon constitutional monarchy after 1830. The volume emphasizes the role of pre-modern urban political and legal norms in shaping the first liberal reforms in nineteenth-century Germany.

Contents

List of Illustrations, Tables, and FiguresAcknowledgementsAbbreviations1. Private Property and Burgher Reform in Central Europe2. The Entrepot and the Electorate: Leipzig and Saxony in 17503. The Seven Years' War: Prussian Occupation and the Saxon Retablissement4. Urban Enlightenment and the Culture of Critique5. The French Occupation of Saxony: War Tribute and Public Debt6. The Council in Crisis, 1814-18307. Revolt and Reform: The Political Transformation of SaxonyConclusionBibliographyIndex