The Peasants of Ottobeuren, 1487–1726
A Rural Society in Early Modern Europe
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- Author: Govind P. Sreenivasan, Brandeis University, Massachusetts
- Date Published: October 2007
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- isbn: 9780521044585
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Focusing on the lands of the Benedictine monastery of Ottobeuren and based on a mass of archival data, this study presents a detailed reconstruction of peasant society in early modern Germany. It argues that the German rural economy performed much better than has previously been believed. The Ottobeuren peasantry generated large agricultural surpluses, became progressively more active in land and credit markets, and traded in ever wider circuits of commerce. Their peasant society is shown therefore to have been stable economically, and surprisingly resilient to war, plague and famine.
Read more- A detailed reconstruction of the actual workings of the German peasant economy
- Provides answers to the social impact of the Thirty Years War, including the economics and politics of reconstruction and post-war immigration
- A rare investigation into the early modern European economy which provides hard data for rural society during the 'crisis of the seventeenth century'
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"Sreenivasan's sophisticated book emerged from many years of labor. Replete with staistics (almost numbingly so), it gains life from compellingly told stories of individuals and families participating in markets, shaping the early modern world in a far more direct way than most scholars of early modern Europe have ever imagined."Renaissance Quarterly W. David Myers, Fordham University
See more reviews"This is a historiographical bouillabaisse with many ingredients...it provides a rich interpretive broth with many a good empirical tidbit...[Sreenivasan] has presented a centuries-encompassing synthesis that reveals a larger picture previously unseen."
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- Date Published: October 2007
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521044585
- length: 412 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 152 x 25 mm
- weight: 0.619kg
- contains: 2 maps
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of maps
List of tables
Acknowledgements
Note on weights, measures and currencies
Introduction
1. Right and might (c.1480–c.1560)
2. The discrete society (c.1480–c.1560)
3. A crisis of numbers? (c.1560–c.1630)
4. Integrity and the market (c.1560–c.1630)
5. Living on borrowed time (c.1560–c.1630)
6. To empty and to refill (c.1630–c.1720)
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index of places
General index.
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