Ordinary Prussians: Brandenburg Junkers and Villagers, 1500-1840Cambridge University Press, 12.12.2002 - 679 Seiten This book gives voice, in unprecedented 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 new test the possibilities of empirical historical knowledge at the microhistorical or 'grass-roots' level. But it also reconceptualises, on the scale of Prussian-German and European history, the rise of agrarian capitalism, challenging views widespread in the economic history literature on the common people's working standards, and including massive new documentation on women's condition, rights, and social roles. |
Inhalt
Grand narratives ordinary Prussians | 1 |
After the deluge a noble lordships sixteenthcentury ascent and seventeenthcentury crisis | 26 |
The Prussianization of the countryside? Noble lordship under early absolutism 16481728 | 69 |
Village identities in social practice and law | 123 |
Daily bread village farm incomes living standards and lifespans | 180 |
The Kleists good fortune family strategies and estate management in an eighteenthcentury noble lineage | 276 |
Noble lordships servitors and clients estate managers artisans clergymen domestic servants | 330 |
Farm servants young and old landless laborers in the villages and at the manor | 387 |
Policing crime and the moral order 17001760 seigneurial court village mayors church state and army | 419 |
Policing seigneurial rent the Kleists battle with their subjects insubordination and the villagers appeals to royal justice 17271806 | 520 |
Seigneurial bond severed from subject farmers to freeholders from compulsory estate labors to free 18061840 | 589 |
Conclusion | 642 |
Bibliography | 651 |
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Ordinary Prussians: Brandenburg Junkers and Villagers, 1500-1840 William W. Hagen Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2007 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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