Bibliography


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Note: Some sources for the purchase of the books are given. You may also want to check prices with other bookseller websites such as Best Book Buys.com or Half.com. If you do not wish to personally own copies of these books, check with your local public library. Many of the following book titles may be obtained through interlibrary loan services.

• Ancestors: The Loving Family in Old Europe
  
  Steven Ozment
  
  Ozment, a professor of ancient and modern history at Harvard University, has researched diaries, letters, fiction, and even woodcuts to present a picture of pre-industrial family life in Europe in the Middle Ages. He discusses such themes as working women (in late medieval Cologne, women's guilds of yarn makers, gold and silk embroiders, and silk makers were among the city's most labor-intensive and highly paid) and women's place in religion and society.
  
  
  
  
• The Barbarians Speak - How the Conquered Peoples Shaped Roman Europe
  
  Peter S. Wells
  ISBN 0 - 691 - 08978 - 7
  
  One place this book may be purchased is through Princeton Paperbacks.
  
  There are many references to Bavaria during Roman times in this book on anthropological archaeology (studying the material remains of Roman-native interaction in non-Roman indigenous locations in Europe, such as Germany).
  
  
  
  
• The Biological Standard of Living in Europe and America: 1700-1900
  
  John Komlos
  
  
  
  
• Bourgeois Society in Nineteenth Century Europe
  
  Jurgen Kocka, Allan Mitchell
  
  
  
  
• The Broken Spell: A Cultural and Anthropological History of Preindustrial Europe
  
  Pieter Spierenburg
  
  Topics include magic, witches, attitudes toward the insane, sex, family life. Spierenburg is a Dutch historian. This book deals with ideas and attitudes throughout Europe up to the start of the 19th century.
  
  
  
  
• The Burgermeister's Daughter: Scandal in a Sixteenth-Century German Town
  
  Steven Ozment
  
  The book is a historical narrative--not a novel.
  
  
  
  
• Criminal Justice Through the Ages
  
  Strafjustiz in alter Zeit
  
  Volume IVb of the publications of the Medieval Crime Museum, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Bavaria.
  
  An excellent historical text in regard to German law and justice from the earliest times to modern legislation. Many photos and illustrations. The book gives very good information on a variety of topics pertaining to the lives of Bavarians in former times. Examples: Town citizenship and guild membership requirements, marriage regulations including precise rules about what foods could be served to the guests, gifts, the extent of time allowed for the celebration, etc., mourning and funeral regulations, clothing regulations, market and food regulations, descriptive information about villages and cities and the laws that governed them, etc.
  
  Published and distributed by:
  
  Mittelalterliches Kriminalmuseum
  Burggasse 3
  91541 Rothenburg o.d.T.
  Germany
  
  The book may be obtained by writing to and paying the museum for a personal copy, or borrowing one through interlibrary loan from a major public library. The folowing webpage created by the museum gives information about the cost of the book: http://www.kriminalmuseum.rothenburg.de/Englisch/souvenir.html.
  
  
  
  
• Demographic Behavior in the Past: A Study of Fourteen German Village Populations in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
  
  John Knodel
  Cambridge Studies in Population History
  
  
  
  
• Eine Kindheit in Niederbayern
  My Childhood in Lower Bavaria
  
  Wolfgang Schmidbauer
  990 - ISBN 3 499 13226 5
  
  
  
  
• The End of the Old Order in Rural Europe
  
  Jerome Blum
  
  Focuses on social relations between classes, the obligations of the peasantry, inheritance, and similar political and sociological issues.
  
  
  
  
• Flesh and Spirit: Private Life in Early Modern Germany
  
  Steven Ozment
  
  Ozment illustrates this remarkably stable history by viewing both the 16th-century family and the larger world around it through the eyes of individual household members. Ozment's five chapters illuminate the life cycle of the family from its origins in courtship and marriage to the sending forth of a new adult generation. Each of the five families--one clerical and four merchant--document the inner life of the urban family during at least one stage of the cycle. All of the featured families are well-to-do citizens of Nürnberg, one of Europe's great merchant and intellectual cities of the time.
  
  
  
  
• The Fontana History of Germany 1780-1918
  The long nineteenth century
  
  David Blackbourn
  
  
  
  
• The German - American Experience
  
  Don Heinrich Tolzmann
  
  The German - American Experience is the most up-to-date and comprehensive work on German-Americans. Don Heinrich Tolzmann records the essential facts in the history of this group, from its first U.S. settlements in the seventeenth century to the present. Beginning with "The Age of Discovery," this volume explores the earliest contacts between America and Germany, immigration and settlement patterns of Germans, foundations of German-American community life, their major involvement in the American Revolution, and the role German-Americans played in our Civil War. Both world wars are chronicled, including anti-German hysteria and sentiment, and the internment of German-Americans. The revival of German heritage and the renaissance of German-American ethnicity since the 1970s is surveyed, along with recent events, including the impact of German unification and the 1990 census.
  
  Tolzmann also analyzes German-American influences on agriculture, industry, religion, education, music, art and architecture, politics, military service, journalism, literature, and language. Included is a commentary on prominent German-Americans, German names, sister cities, historical statistics, and much more. Highly entertaining and informative, this book is a must for those interested in their German heritage or American history in general.
  
  
  
  
• Germany: A General and Regional Geography
  
  Robert E. Dickinson
  
  This is an older book (1953) but one that covers development in Germany from a geographical perspective. It looks at climate, soils, vegetation, and landforms but also at field layouts, farms, village formation, town types, travel, etc.
  
  
  
  
• German History 1789-1871: From the Holy Roman Empire to the Bismarckian Reich
  
  Eric Dorn Brose
  
  
  
  
• German home towns : community, state, and general estate, 1648-1871
  
  Mack Walker
  Library of Congress Control Number: 76162540
  
  
  
  
• Germany in the Eighteenth Century
  
  W. H. Bruford
  
  The social background of the literary revival.
  
  
  
  
• Germany and the Emigration, 1816-1885
  
  Mack Walker
  Library of Congress Control Number: 64013431
  
  
  
  
• Germany: A New History
  
  Kleine deutsche Geschichte
  
  Schulze, Hagen
  Translated by Deborah Lucas Schneider
  ISBN 0 - 674 - 80688 - 3
  
  The information in the book spans the times of the Romans to Germany as a divided nation from 1949 - 1990.
  
  
  
  
• Germany: A New Social and Economic History, 1450 - 1630, Vol. I
  
  Bob Scribner, ed.
  
  Specialized but interesting essays on consumption and demand, gender and the worlds of work, daily life in early modern Germany, communities, poverty, and similar topics.
  
  
  
  
• Germany: A New Social and Economic History, 1630-1800, Vol. II
  
  Sheilagh Ogilvie, ed.
  
  Specialized but interesting essays on consumption and demand, gender and the worlds of work, daily life in early modern Germany, communities, poverty, and similar topics.
  
  
  
  
• Highroad to the Stake: A Tale of Witchcraft
  
  Michael Kunze
  
  Dramatic tale of an itinerant Bavarian family caught up in a world of witchcraft, torture, and execution. This work is based on historical documents. Warning ! If you have delicate sensibilities, you may not wish to visit the following website: The Pappenheimer Trial. It graphically outlines details of the incident upon which the book is based.
  
  
  
  
• Ihr ghönt es Eich gar nicht vorstelen wie es in Amerigha zu ged - Auswanderung aus den jungen Rodungsdörfern des Passauer Abteilandes nach Nordamerika seit der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts.
  
  Dr. Friedemann Fegert
  ISDN 3 - 8311 - 0234 - 1
  539 pps., 75 illus., 50 photographs, 49 tables
  Published by Druck, Bindung und Vertrieb in Germany and available through Books on Demand.
  
  Dr. Friedemann describes the contents of his book: "The miserable life in the forest villages, the hopeful letters from the United States, the authorities struggle against the "emigration frenzy", the difficult and often painful preparations for the departure, the stressful voyage between decks, the humiliating examination on Ellis Island, and the onerous new beginning in the New World are brought to life through German and American sources unknown until now."
  
  The translated version of the book is due to be published in 2003 and will include new photographs and document images.
  
  
  
  
• Magdalena & Balthasar - An intimate portrait of life in 16th century Europe revealed in the letters of a Nuremberg husband & wife
  
  Steven Ozment
  
  
  
  
• Making their own America: Assimilation Theory and the German Peasant
  
  Kathleen Neils Conzen
  
  
  
  
• Mobility and Modernity : Migration in Germany, 1820-1989
  
  Steve Hochstadt
  
  Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany.
  
  
  
  
• News from the Land of Freedom - German Immigrants Write Home
  
  Walter D. Kamphoefner, Wolfgang Helbich and Ulrike Sommer, Ed.
  ISBN 0 - 8014 - 8120 - 1
  
  
  
  
• Peasants In The Middle Ages
  
  Werner Rösener
  
  Rösener is a German historian. This book, a translation from the German, focuses on German culture in the Middle Ages. Topics include: Patterns of settlement, clothing, food, peasant family life, housing.
  
  
  
  
• People in Transit : German Migrations in Comparative Perspective, 1820-1930
  
  Dirk Hoerder, Jorg Nagler, Ed.
  Publication of the German Historical Institute
  
  
  
  
• Schooling German Girls and Women : Secondary and Higher Education in the Nineteenth Century
  
  James C. Albisetti
  
  
  
  
• Schooling and Society: The Politics of Education in Prussia and Bavaria 1750 - 1900
  
  Karl A. Schleunes
  
  
  
  
• Settlement, Economy, and Cultural Change at the End of the European Iron Age : Excavations at Kelheim in Bavaria, 1987 - 1991
  
  Peter S. Wells
  
  This book may be purchased through Amazon.com.
  
  
  
  
• Sexuality, State, and Civil Society in Germany, 1700 - 1815
  
  Isabel V. Hull
  
  
  
  
• A Social History of Germany, 1648-1914
  
  Eda Sagarra
  
  
  
  
• Social Orders and Social Classes in Europe Since 1500
  
  M.L. Bush
  
  
  
  
• State, Society, and the Elementary School in Imperial Germany
  
  Marjorie Lamberti
  
  
  
  
• The Village in Court - Arson, Infanticide, and Poaching in the Court Records of Upper Bavaria, (Oberbayern) 1848 - 1910
  
  Regina Schulte
  ISBN 0 - 521 - 43186 - 7
  
  While the title suggests the documentation of sensational crimes, a related and equally important aspect of the book is the significant information it gives about the lives of everyday people in Oberbayern in the late 19th century, early 20th century: culture, customs, common attitudes, etc. Parts of the book include "Peasant Society and the Individual" (work, day labor, the village, village outsiders, farmers, the law of inheritance, etc.) and "The status of women and the place of children" (bridal wagons, marriage, childbirth and childrearing) .
  
  
  
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