Germany under the Old Regime 1600-1790

By John G. Gagliardo

German history in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries is notoriously inaccessible to non-specialists. When other European countries were well on the way to becoming nation states, Germany remained frozen as a territorially-fragmented, politically and religiously-divided society. The achievement of this major contribution to the new History of Germany is to do justice to the variety and multiplicity of the period without foundering under the wealth of information it conveys.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138835889
• ISBN13: 9781138835887
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

People are so used to today’s map that they miss important history.

Many of today’s nation-states used to be small territories and city-states. It is interesting to see how they interacted and eventually combined. Yet even today, each territory may not be autonomous but retains its own personality. One way this shows up today is that the 1932 notgeld displayed the one hundred German states. There are fourteen pages of maps at the end of the book that can give you a visual of the different territories. The history is broken into twenty-four small chapters. I would tell the names, but they are not relevant to the content.