"Russell clearly succeeds in erasing historically one-dimensional views of Hamburg's late entry into shaping Germany's larger cultural and intellectual discourse." - German Studies Review

..".a valuable scholarly contribution, serving as a useful reminder of the broad spectrum of political views and levels of engagement to be found in the complex confrontations with modernity in later imperial Germany." - The American Historical Review

..". a compelling and needed nuance to overly simplified assumptions about Wilhelmine history. Russell) offers instead a Hamburg that used its public...