1st Edition
The German Peasantry (Routledge Revivals) Conflict and Community in Rural Society from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Centuries
List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; 1. ‘Tradition’ and the Peasantry: On the Modern Histiography of Rural Germany Ian Farr 2. Peasants and Markets: The Background to the Agrarian Reforms in Feudal Prussia East of the Elbe, 1760-1807 Hartmut Harnisch 3. The Junkers’ Faithless Servants: Peasant Insubordination and the Breakdown of Serfdom in Brandenburg-Prussia, 1763-1811 William W. Hagen 4. The Rural Proletariat: The Everyday Life of Rural Labourers in the Magdeburg Region, 1830-1880 Hainer Plaul 5. Farmers and Factory Workers: Rural Society in Imperial Germany: The Example of Maudach Cathleen S. Catt 6. Peasants and Farmers’ Maids: Female Farm Servants in Bavaria at the End of the Nineteenth Century Regina Schulte 7. The Sins of the Fathers: Village Society and Social Control in the Weimar Republic Gerhard Wilke 8. Peasants, Poverty and Population: Economic and Political Factors in the Family Structure of the Working Village People in the Magdeburg Region, 1990-39 Gisela Griepentrog 9. Peasant Customs and Social Structure: Rural Marriage Festivals in the Magdeburg Region in the 1920s Christel Heinrich 10. Peasants and Others: The Historical Contours of Village Class Society Wolfgang Kaschuba 11. The Rules of the Village: On the Cultural History of the Peasant World in the Last 150 Years Utz Jeggle; Notes on Contributors; Index
Biography
Richard J. Evans, W. R. Lee
