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Early Modern Germany in The Encyclopedia of German History. Part 1: Population, Economies, and the World of the Village

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2008

Thomas A. Brady Jr.
Thomas A. Brady Jr.
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Central European History , Volume 30 , Issue 4 , December 1997 , pp. 567 - 588
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Copyright © Conference Group for Central European History of the American Historical Association 1997

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For critical comments and suggestions I wish to thank Katherine G. Brady and Peter Sahlins.

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26. Ibid., 51, criticizing Winfried Schulze.

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28. Ibid., 100–6.

29. Reininghaus, 5.

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31. Ibid., 91.

32. Ibid., 98.

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34. And supplemented for Austria by A. Hoffmann. Holenstein, 30–34.

35. See, e.g., Trossbach's effective criticism of Herman Rebel's reductionist treatment of “housed” and “unhoused” peasants, in Holenstein, 73.

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45. Ibid., 64. The Göttingen group includes Hans Medick, Peter Kriedte, Jürgen Schlumbohm, and Alf Lüdtke.

46. Among the most noteworthy are Rudolf Braun on the Zürcher Oberland, Arno Fitz on Vorarlberg, Josef Mooser on the County of Ravensberg, and David W. Sabean on Neckarhausen, Hans Medick on Laichingen, and Jürgen Schlumbohm on Osnabrück.

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