Germany Under the Old Regime 1600-1790 by John G. Gagliardo

Germany Under the Old Regime 1600-1790

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John G. Gagliardo, John Gagliardo

Taylor and Francis · Ebook · September 4, 1991

German history in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries is notoriously inaccessible to non-specialists.

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Who it’s for
A survey of Germany’s politically and religiously divided society from 1600 to 1790.
Genres
German History, 18th-Century History, 17th-Century History
Published
Taylor and Francis, September 4, 1991

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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.

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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.

Germany’s Divided Society

A survey of Germany’s politically and religiously divided society from 1600 to 1790.

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  • Territorial fragmentation across seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Germany

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  • Political divisions
  • Religious divisions

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German History96%
17th-Century History88%
18th-Century History71%

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Authors
John G. Gagliardo, John Gagliardo
Publisher
Taylor and Francis
Published
September 4, 1991
Format
Ebook