Urban Decline in Early Modern Germany: Schwäbisch Hall and Its Region, 1650-1750

by Terence McIntosh

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 SchwNbisch 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807850632
• ISBN13: 9780807850633
• Release Date: March 1997
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"