Urban Decline in Early Modern Germany

Schwäbisch Hall and Its Region, 1650-1750

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Terence McIntosh

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The James Sprunt Studies in History and Political Science

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During the Middle Ages, southwest Germany was one of the most prosperous areas of central Europe, but the Thirty Years' War brought devastating social and economic dislocation to the region. Focusing on the town of SchwNbisch Hall, Terence McIntosh explores the causes and consequences of the sluggish recovery of the region's urban communities in the century after the signing of the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648. He argues that changing relations between town and countryside contributed significantly to the weakening of urban craft production and, therefore, to the region's urban stagnation. In his economic and structural analysis of SchwNbisch Hall, McIntosh explores the significance and changes over time of wealth inequalities, marriage and migration patterns, and class formation. He demonstrates that the rapid proliferation of the rural craft industry within the region eroded the ability of small-scale urban artisans to keep pace. This process in turn profoundly affected the structure of urban society and economy. McIntosh's analysis constitutes a significant reinterpretation of the process of urban class formation and economic transformation in early modern Germany.

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Terence McIntosh is associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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March 31st, 1997

Author

Terence McIntosh

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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
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Undergraduate

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New edition

Pages

344

Series

The James Sprunt Studies in History and Political Science

Dimensions

156x235x23

ISBN-13

9780807850633

Product ID

6286008

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