The German peasantry: conflict and community in rural society from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries

In: Routledge revivals

Abstract

1. 'Tradition' and the peasantry : on the modern historiography of rural Germany / Ian Farr -- 2. Peasants and markets : the background to the Agrarian reforms in feudal Prussia East of the Elbe, 1760-1807 / Hartmut Harnisch -- 3. The junkers' faithless servants : peasant insubordination and the breakdown of serfdom in Brandenburg-Prussia, 1763-1811 / William W. Hagen -- 4. The rural proletariat : the everyday life of rural labourers in the Magdeburg region, 1830-1880 / Hainer Plaul -- 5. Farmers and factory workers : rural society in imperial Germany : the example of Maudach / Cathleen S. Catt -- 6. Peasants and farmers' maids : female farm servants in Bavaria at the end of the nineteenth century / Regina Schulte -- 7. The sins of the fathers : village society and social control in the Weimar Republic / Gerhard Wilke -- 8. Peasants, poverty and population : economic and political factors in the family structure of the working village people in the Magdeburg region, 1900-39 / Gisela Griepentrog -- 9. Peasant customs and social structure : rural marriage festivals in the Magdeburg region in the 1920s / Christel Heinrich -- 10. Peasants and others : the historical contours of village class society / Wolfgang Kaschuba -- 11. The rules of the village : on the cultural history of the peasant world in the last 150 years / Utz Jeggle.