Ecology, Economy and State Formation in Early Modern Germany

by Paul Warde

Book Overview

This is an innovative analysis of the agrarian world and growth of government in early modern Germany through the medium of pre-industrial society's most basic material resource, wood. Paul Warde offers a regional study of south-west Germany from the late fifteenth to the early eighteenth century, demonstrating the stability of the economy and social structure through periods of demographic pressure, warfare and epidemic. He casts light on the nature...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521143330
• ISBN13: 9780521143332
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 412 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"