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Veröffentlichungen des Max-Planck-Instituts fur Geschichte, 142. Volume, measuring approximately 6.75" x 9.75", is bound in green cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine and front cover. Book and dust jacket are like new. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. 283 pages."The middle of the 18th century seems to be the calm before the great storm: the peasant revolts are over, the upheavals of the 19th century are still a long way off; the short era of enlightened absolutism has begun. However, the focus is on geographical and political peripheral areas, a picture of diverse change emerges. Michaela Hohkamp shows that the Obervogtei of Triberg did not at all fit into the absolutist rule. The "Obervogt," dependent on the support of local elites and himself oriented towards the traditional understanding of rule, did not succeed in enforcing sovereign guidelines . Nevertheless, social, economic and political relations changed fundamentally around the middle of the 18th century. The process of internal… Read More
