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Author Goldberg, Ann (Ann E.)

Title Honor, politics and the law in imperial Germany, 1871-1914 / Ann Goldberg
Published Cambridge [U.K.] ; New York, N.Y. : Cambridge University Press, 2010
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 215 pages)
Series New studies in European history
New studies in European history.
Contents Introduction -- The development of the law -- Honor disputes and everyday life -- The state -- Politicization -- Popular mobilizations : Jews and lunatics -- Conclusion : Beyond 1914
Summary "Honor in nineteenth-century Germany is usually thought of as an anachronistic aristocratic tradition confined to the duelling elites. In this innovative study Ann Goldberg shows instead how it pervaded all aspects of German life and how, during an era of rapid modernization, it was adapted and incorporated into the modern state, industrial capitalism, and mass politics. In business, state administration, politics, labor relations, gender and racial matters, Germans contested questions of honor in an explosion of defamation litigation. Dr Goldberg surveys court cases, newspaper reportage, and parliamentary debates, exploring the conflicts of daily life and the intense politicization of libel jurisprudence in an era when an authoritarian state faced off against groups and individuals from 'below' claiming new citizenship rights around a democratized notion of honor and law. Her fascinating account provides a nuanced and important new understanding of the political, legal and social history of imperial Germany"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Honor -- Germany -- History
Political culture -- Germany -- History
Libel and slander -- Germany -- History
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Honor
Libel and slander
Political culture
Ehre
Politische Kultur
Ehrenschutz
Rechtskultur
Eer.
Belediging.
Processen (rechtspraak)
SUBJECT Germany -- History -- 1871-1918. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054578
Subject Germany
Deutschland
Duitsland.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780511729324
0511729324
9780511726026
0511726023
9780511730160
0511730160
9781107411494
1107411491