Urban Decline in Early Modern Germany: Schwäbisch Hall and Its Region, 1650-1750, Volume 62During 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 Schw bisch Hall, Terence McIntosh explor |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The City Its Salt and Its Wealth Tax The Historical Setting | 11 |
The Beet lists | 21 |
The Data Sets | 33 |
The Structure of the Urban Economy | 37 |
Decline and Growth | 38 |
Collapse and Recovery | 42 |
The Distribution of Wealth | 49 |
First Marriages | 136 |
Remarriages | 148 |
Migration | 159 |
Servants lourneymen and the Problem of Temporary Migration | 160 |
Permanent Migration | 165 |
Conclusion | 187 |
The Conversion of Nominal into Real Currency Values | 193 |
The Construction of the Household Tax Histories | 196 |
The Occupational Structure and Sectoral Redistribution of labor | 57 |
The Redistribution of Wealth among Occupational Groups | 67 |
The Redistribution of Wealth within Occupational Groups | 73 |
The Ruralization of Craft Production | 79 |
The PurtingOut System in Urban Craft Production | 80 |
TownCountry Relations and Urban Craft Production | 83 |
Wealth Mobility | 105 |
Constructing a Scale for the Measurement of Wealth Mobility | 106 |
The Evidence from Transition Matrixes | 114 |
The Boundaries of Class | 128 |
The Marriage Market | 135 |
Wunders Overestimation of Total Taxable Wealth | 200 |
Occupations for Male Householders in 16251682 and 1754 | 201 |
The Distribution of Occupational Wealth in 1545 and 1625 | 207 |
The Transition Matrixes for the 1682 and 1702 Cohorts | 209 |
The Wealth Distribution of All Households during the Family Cycle | 218 |
The Marriage Data | 219 |
The Migration Data | 220 |
Notes | 223 |
Sources | 283 |
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