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Urban decline in early modern Germany : Schwäbisch Hall and its region, 1650-1750

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Urban decline in early modern Germany : Schwäbisch Hall and its region, 1650-1750 / Terence McIntosh.

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"During the Middle Ages, southwest Germany was one of the most prosperous areas of central Europe, but the Thirty Years' War brought devastating social and economic dislocation to the region. Focusing on the town of Schwabisch Hall, Terence McIntosh explores the causes and consequences of the sluggish recovery of the region's urban communities in the century after the signing of the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648. He argues that changing relations between town and countryside contributed significantly to the weakening of urban craft production and, therefore, to the region's urban stagnation." "In his economic and structural analysis of Schwabisch Hall, McIntosh explores the significance and changes over time of wealth inequalities, marriage and migration patterns, and class formation. He demonstrates that the rapid proliferation of the rural craft industry within the region eroded and ability of small-scale urban artisans to keep pace. This process in turn profoundly affected the structure of urban society and economy. McIntosh's analysis constitutes significant reinterpretation of the process of urban class formation and economic transformation in early modern Germany."--Jacket.

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1. The City, Its Salt, and Its Wealth Tax -- 2. The Structure of the Urban Economy -- 3. The Ruralization of Craft Production -- 4. Wealth Mobility -- 5. The Marriage Market -- 6. Migration -- App. A. The Conversion of Nominal into Real Currency Values -- App. B. The Construction of the Household Tax Histories -- App. C. Wunder's Overestimation of Total Taxable Wealth -- App. D. Occupations for Male Householders in 1625, 1682, and 1754 -- App. E. The Distribution of Occupational Wealth in 1545 and 1625 -- App. F. The Transition Matrixes for the 1682 and 1702 Cohorts -- App. G. The Wealth Distribution of All Households during the Family Cycle -- App. H. The Marriage Data -- App. I. The Migration Data.

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