{"product_id":"9781566568463","title":"Hamburg: A Cultural History","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt is a popular misconception that Hamburg is a coastal city. Despite possessing Europe's second-busiest port, this amphibious city lies some 65 miles from the North Sea. Its longstanding image as a city without culture is also something of a myth. When the poet Heine remarked that in Hamburg \"the customs are English,\" he was referring to its no-nonsense mercantile ethos, which dates back to the era of 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlthough the traumas of 20th-century German history are never far from the surface, Hamburg has become an attractive city full of color and contrast. As Germany's gateway to the world, it is a cosmopolitan city, whose culture has been shaped by those passing through as much as by those who stayed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJefferies explores a city-state boasting the highest per capita GDP in Germany where ostentatious displays of wealth are shunned; a city without palaces, castles, or cathedrals, yet bursting with monuments and memorials. With nearly eight million visitors each year, Hamburg is fast becoming one of Europe's most popular destinations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCity of Water \u0026amp; Fire: The Elbe, the Alster, and more bridges than Venice and Amsterdam combined; a city rebuilt after the Great Fire of 1842 and the Allied firestorm of July 1943\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCity of Brick \u0026amp; Neon: The warehouse district; Fritz Höger's expressionist Chilehaus; Fritz Schumacher's vision of a \"liveable metropolis\" the Reeperbahn and the Beatles\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe World, City: Hamburg's colonial past; embarking point for millions of European migrants to the New World\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Interlink Publishing Group, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47049311420656,"sku":"9781566568463","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781566568463_p0.jpg?v=1763786215","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781566568463","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}