Spaces of Honor – Making German Civil Society, 1700–1914 Lempa Hardback

Spaces of HonorMaking German Civil Society, 1700-1914\nAuthor(s): Heikki Lempa\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: The University of Michigan Press, United States\nImprint: The University of Michigan Press\nISBN-13: 9780472132638, 978-0472132638\nSynopsis\nThe common understanding is that honor belongs to a bygone era, whereas civil society belongs to the future and modern society. Heikki Lempa argues that honor was not gone or even in decline between 1700 and 1914, and that civil society was not new but had long roots that stretched into the Middle Ages. In fact, what is peculiar for this era in Germany were the deep connections between practices of honor and civil society. This study focuses on collective actions of honor and finds them, in a series of case studies, at such communal spaces as schools, theaters, lunch and dinner tables, spas, workers strikes, and demonstrations. It is in these collective actions that we see civil society in making.\n\nSpaces of Honor sees civil society no.