Product Description: The third volume of this three-volume history focuses on Germany's late but explosive economic transformation after 1800, the cycles of war, defeat, and dictatorship from 1914 to 1950, and the 'German miracle' after 1950. The picture is one of rapid change, but within a framework of recognizable long-term continuities...read more

Product Description: The third volume in the series focuses on Germany's explosive economic transformation after 1800, the cycles of war, defeat, and dictatorship from 1914 to 1950, and the “German miracle” of revitalization after WWII. The picture is one of rapid change, but within a framework of recognizable long-term continuities...read more

Product Description: In recent years, new approaches to the history of the Reformation of the Church have radically altered our understanding of that event within its broadest social and cultural context. In this concise study, R. W. Scribner provides a synthesis of the main research, with special emphasis on the German Reformation, and presents his own interpretation of the period...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The sixteen chapters in this book, written by leading experts in this period's history, offer a new and dramatically different interpretation of how religious toleration and conflict developed in the crucial period between 1500, when northern humanism had begun to make an impact, and 1648, the end of the Thirty Years War...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The late Bob Scribner was one of the most original and provocative historians of the German Reformation. His truly pioneering spirit comes to light in this collection of his most recent essays. In the years before his death, Scribner explored the role of the senses in late medieval devotional culture, and wondered how the Reformation changed sensual attitudes...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The sixteen chapters in this book, written by leading experts in this period's history, offer a new and dramatically different interpretation of how religious toleration and conflict developed in the crucial period between 1500, when northern humanism had begun to make an impact, and 1648, the end of the Thirty Years War...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Studies in the field of popular religion have for some time been among the most innovative in social and cultural history, but until now there have been few publications providing any adequate overview for Germany and the Holy Roman Empire...read more

Product Description: This is one of three volumes which together provide a full social and economic history of Germany. The history's extensive chronological range enables it to cover long-term structural developments in demography, agriculture and consumption, for instance, while examining their interaction with the social formations of the medieval and early modern periods up to the eve of industrialization...read more

Product Description: This three-volume history represents the first modern attempt to present an understanding of social and economic change in Germany from the Middle Ages to the present. Two volumes are now available; the third is forthcoming. The first volume discerns the roots of sixteenth-century developments in the later Middle Ages, going as far back as 1300 to establish basic economic frameworks in population and agrarian development, patterns of towns and town-country relations, social structure, and changing patterns of consumption and daily life...read more

Product Description: R.W. Scribner's pioneering work analyzes the forms of popular propaganda aimed at the illiterate and semi-literate during the German Reformation and reproduces many of the prints which still survive in Germany. A new Introduction and an additional chapter in this edition advance original interpretations of these illustrations, revealing how visual propaganda both exploited and participated in popular belief and the coarser aspects of popular culture...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This collection of essays explores the experience of religious reform in "national context." In discussing similarities and differences among the reform movements in a dozen European countries, the book considers countries in which the Reformation was strikingly successful and those where it failed to make an impact...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The Reformation has traditionally been explained in terms of theology, the corruption of the church and the role of princes. R.W. Scribner, while not denying the importance of these, shifts the context of study of the German Reformation to an examination of popular beliefs and behaviour, and of the reactions of local authorities to the problems and opportunities for social as well as religious reform...read more