Germany: A New Social and Economic History : 1450-1630

By Robert W. Scribner

This three-volume history represents the first modern attempt to present an understanding of social and economic change in Germany from the Middle Ages to the present. Despite a long tradition of scholarship in the field, it has taken a considerable time for an emphasis on long-term structuresand the material basis of culture and society to take root, and it is part of the purpose of the present project to demonstrate the fruitfulness of such an approach across a broad spectrum of major topics. With original contributions from an international team of scholars, the volumes represent someof the best work in the field. The first volume discerns the roots of sixteenth-century developments in the later Middle Ages, as far back as 1300, establishing basic economic frameworks in population and agrarian development, patterns of towns and town-country relations, social structure and changing patterns of consumption anddaily life. Characteristic features of the 'long sixteenth century' are early capitalism, changes in the gendered nature of work, the social and economic role of institutions, the importance of communalism and religious change which lead to modern confessionalism. This volume both summarizes recentresearch and provides fresh thematic approaches to German history based on specialist expertise and original insights.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0340513322
• ISBN13: 9780340513323
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Hodder Arnold
• Length: 399 Pages
• Weight: 1.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 1.5" x 6.8"