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

Author/Contributor(s):	Walker, Mack
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Date:	06/18/1998
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

German Home Towns is a social biography of the hometown Bürger from the end of the seventeenth to the beginning of the twentieth centuries. After his opening chapters on the political, social, and economic basis of town life, Mack Walker traces a painful process of decline that, while occasionally slowed or diverted, leads inexorably toward...