A Tale of Second Cities: Autonomy, Culture, and the Law in Hamburg and Barcelona in the Late Nineteenth Century.
The article analyzes the role of the second cities of Hamburg, Germany and Barcelona, Spain in the in the building of their nation's autonomy, culture and law in the late nineteenth century. In Spain, by contrast, autonomous principalities were brought together by the different project of enforced s...
| Publicado en: | American Historical Review Vol. 110; no. 3; pp. 659 - 693 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Jun2005
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