Patriots and Paupers carefully analyzes a crucial juncture in the
history of a great city: Hamburg's passage from the pre-modern into
the modern world. Despite the relative wealth of historical
literature on Reformation Germany and on Germany after unification,
few English-language histories have addressed the events of the
eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Mary Lindemann here
details issues associated with poor relief--indigency, mendicancy,
public health, labor regulation, social control, and
disciplining--then uses these as springboards to broader historical
debates. She draws out the subtle yet decisive political shift from
the paternalistic dirigisme of a government of fathers and uncles
to the socio-economic laissez-faire of early liberalism, and
locates this political metamorphosis firmly within the framework of
Hamburg's dynamic economic development and dramatic demographic
growth. She links these political and social changes to the
intellectual, cultural, and prosopographical contexts of the German
Enlightenment. Far more than a history of poverty and social
welfare policies, Patriots and Paupers explores the critical
interconnections between economics, demographics, social change,
and government in the closing years of the European Old Regime.
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