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100	1	0	_aPolasky, Janet _eauthor
245	0	0	_a“Largely inhabited by foreigners”: Émigrés and exiles in the ports of Altona and Hamburg at the turn of the nineteenth century
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520			_aWith their often ostentatious lives, the aristocratic émigrés who traveled alone or with companions to the independent German city state of Hamburg and the neighboring Danish city of Altona did not blend into to the mix of merchants, scholars, artisans, and manual workers who populated these port cities at the end of the eighteenth century. Their penchant for luxury and lavish entertaining has caught the attention of historians who overlook the steady flow of bourgeois families who more readily assimilated in these outward-looking cities. The wives of Senators welcomed newcomers to their cosmopolitan dinners. New arrivals flourished in the entrepreneurial climate and families intermarried. An economic downturn by the end of the decade threatened this comfortable civic republicanism, compounded by Napoleon’s occupation.
786	0		_nRevue d’histoire du XIXe siècle | o 61 | 2 | 2021-01-25 | p. 27-49 | 1265-1354
856	4	1	_uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-revue-d-histoire-du-dix-neuvieme-siecle-2020-2-page-27?lang=en
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