Hamburg
Subtitle: a cultural history
By: by Matthew Jefferies
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Interlink Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Northampton, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9781566568463
Subjects: Buildings, structures; Civilization; Historic sites; Historic buildings; Intellectual life; History
Description: "It is a popular misconceptuion that Hamburg is a coastal city. Despite being Europe's second-biggest port, [the city] lies some 65 miles from the North Sea. Its lomgstanding iamge as a city wityhout cyulture is also something of a myth. When the poet [Heinrich] Heine remarked that in Hamburg "the customs are English", he was referring to its no-nonsense mercantile ethos, which dates back to the era odf the Hanseatic League. Yet even in Heine's day the celebrated philistinism of the city fathers was balanced by a tradition of private philanthropy: Hamburg has long been a city of culture as well as commerce. ..."--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: A cultural history of a "city without culture"?; title: A brief history of Hamburg; title: History lessons in stone; title: A city on the water; title: A city on fire; title: A city of brick; title: The neon city; title: The world city; title: Epilogue: The future city.