William W. Hagen

Ordinary Prussians

Brandenburg Junkers and Villagers, 1500 1840

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This book gives voice, in unusual depth and immediacy, to ordinary villagers and landlords (Junkers) in the Prussian-German countryside, from the late Middle Ages to the nineteenth century. The trials and fortunes of everyday life come into view - in the family, the workplace, in the private lives of both men and women, in courtroom and jailhouse, and under the gaze of the rising Prussian monarchy's officials and army officers. What emerges is a many-dimensioned, long-term study of a rural society, inviting comparisons on a world-historical level. The book also puts to a test the possibilities of empirical historical knowledge at the microhis… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Baldwin, Peter (Hrsg.) / Clark, Christopher (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-0-521-81558-1
EAN: 9780521815581
Produktnummer: 1919714
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
Seitenangabe: 712 S.
Masse: H24.0 cm x B16.1 cm x D4.2 cm 1'223 g
Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
Gewicht: 1223

Über den Autor

William W. Hagen was born in 1942, and has taught at UC Davis since 1970. He is the author of Germans, Poles, and Jews: The Nationality Conflict in the Prussian East, 1772-1914 (Chicago, 1980). Ordinary Prussians is the culmination of his research over the past two decades, including two years in the Prussian State archive.