Port Cities as Cosmopolitan Places? Hanseatic Cities in the Wake of Nazism

This is a study of post-war reconstruction and the politics of local identities, particularly relating to three harbour cities—-the Hanseatic cities of Hamburg, Lübeck and Bremen. It looks at shattered home towns after the bombing (something relatable to Plymouth), and also at how denizens used their sea-faring history to argue for internationalist projects and reconciliation as in tune with local identities/histories. This contrasted with the Nazi definition of their harbour towns as part of a tradition of "projecting" German national power onto the world stage.