German Home Towns Community, State, and General Estate, 1648-1871

Name: German Home Towns Community, State, and General Estate, 1648-1871
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ISBN: 9780801485084

ISBN-10: 0801485088

ISBN-13: 9780801485084

Edition: 2015

Authors: Mack Walker, James J. Sheehan

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"German Home Towns certainly illuminates habits of life in the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries which were as distinctively German as the peasant world of Grimm's Fairy Tales."—Times Literary Supplement Originally published in 1971, German Home Towns has been out of print for many years. Cornell University Press is pleased to make this classic book available again for the first time in a paperback edition. "[German Home Towns] is a book of the first importance. . . . [It] is a compelling illustration of what can be achieved by historians who abandon over-cropped Prussia and Austria in favor of the still unexploited regions of the 'Third Germany.'"—English Historical Review…

Book details

List price: $37.95
Copyright year: 2015
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 6/18/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 496
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.672
Language: English



Introduction



The Home Towns



The Incubator



The Civic Community



Guilds



Walls, Webs, and Citizens



Meeting with the State



Cameralism and Community



Napoleonic Power in Germany



Weissenburg, 1780-1825



Community Identified



Meeting with the General Estate



Undermining the Walls



Biedermeier



Eighteen Forty-Eight



Death and Transfiguration



The Imperial Trades Edict of 1731


Abbreviations and Citations


Index