Hamburg
a cultural history
1st American ed.
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Author
Publication
2011 - Interlink Books, Northampton, MA, Massachusetts
Language
English
Word Count
57,250 words, Guess
Page Count
229 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivehamburgculturalh0000jeff
- ISBN-139781566568463
- ISBN-101566568463
- Library of Congress Control Number2011013251
- OCLC Control Number696087223
and 2 more
- Better World Books9781566568463
- Open LibraryOL25077613M
Classifications
- DDC943/.515
- LCCDD901.H247 J44 2011
- LCCDD901.H247J44 2011
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.
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