Urban Decline in Early Modern Germany: Schwäbisch Hall and Its Region, 1650-1750
(Part of the James Sprunt Studies in History and Political Science Series)
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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.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0807850632
ISBN13:9780807850633
Release Date:March 1997
Publisher:University of North Carolina Press
Length:340 Pages
Weight:1.30 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"
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