Defence date: 7 December 1996Examining board: Prof. Dr. Ute Frevert (Universität Konstanz) ; Prof. Dr. Heinz-Gerhard Haupt (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle) ; Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kaschuba (Humboldt-Universität Berlin) ; Prof. Dr. Dieter Langewiesche (Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen) ; Prof. Dr. Luisa Passerini (Europäisches Hochschulinstitut Florenz)PDF of thesis uploaded from the Library digitised archive of EUI PhD theses completed between 2013 and 201