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Property and Civil Society in South-Western Germany 1820-1914 (Hardcover, New)
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Property and Civil Society in South-Western Germany 1820-1914 (Hardcover, New)
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Historians have often employed the concept of civil society, an
intermediary realm between the family and the state, to analyse
nineteenth-century Europe and North America. They have concentrated
on voluntary associations, the press and public meetings, the
constituent elements of Jurgen Habermas's 'public sphere', in doing
so overlooking a central element of nineteenth-century civil
society: property and its disposition, whether within the family or
in the marketplace.
This book examines the place of property in the society of
south-western Germany during property's nineteenth-century golden
age. It analyses the culture of property ownership and property
transactions within families, among business partners and
competitors, and among creditors and debtors. The work considers
the boundaries of property, outlining relationships between
neighbouring property owners, and showing how property ownership
helped shape social distinctions between men and women, Christians
and Jews, the upper and lower classes, the sane and the insane, and
between honourable and dishonourable actions. It traces the
development of property relations and property transactions from
the end of the Napoleonic era to the eve of the First World War.
The book's conclusion compares conditions in south-western Germany
with those elsewhere in Europe and North America, and considers
changes in property relations occurring in Germany during the age
of total war and in the post-1945 period in the light of structures
and developments in the nineteenth century.
Based on extensive documentation from civil court records,
Property and Civil Society in South-Western Germany presents its
results through the recounting ofintriguing, sometimes bizarre, but
always revealing stories of legal disputes. A reconsideration of
the nature of civil society, an analysis of nineteenth-century
social development and social conflict, a study of the nature and
action of the law in everyday life, the book is also an ironic and
bemused look at the past human condition.
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