Indentured to Liberty
Peasant Life and the Hessian Military State, 1688-1815
When Washington crossed the Delaware on Y Christmas Eve in 1778, he attacked German farm boys hired out to the British monarchy as mercenaries. Throughout the eighteenth century the British rented such armies from the Landgraves of Hesse-Cassel under the auspices of the so-called subsidy treaties. Forced to defend the liberties of English elites, Hessian conscripts were themselves subjected to a harsh authoritarian rule. In this engaging book, Peter K. Taylor reconstructs the world of these peasants and their families.Taylor examines the political economy of the international trade in military units and shows how Hesse's notorious system of m…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-5017-4488-4
- EAN: 9781501744884
- Produktnummer: 31598290
- Verlag: Cornell University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 280 S.
- Plattform: PDF
Über den Autor
Peter K. Taylor is Assistant Professor of History at Rosary College, River Forest, Illinois.
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