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Documents - Region, City, and Countryside
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1.   Ernst Dronke: Excerpts from Berlin (1846)
In the following excerpts from Berlin (1846), socialist writer Ernst Dronke presents a kaleidoscopic view of life in the Prussian capital at the very beginning of a period of substantial....
2.   Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl on Peasant Particularism: Excerpt from Civil Society (1851)
In this selection from Civil Society [Die bürgerliche Gesellschaft ] (1851), Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl vividly describes the persistence of regional....
3.   Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl: Excerpt from Land and People (1851)
In this passage from Land and People (1851), Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl postulates that Germany is comprised of three regions marked by differences in the relationship between city and countryside.....
4.   August Becker: Excerpts from The Palatinate and the Palatines (1858)
In this excerpt from The Palatinate and the Palatines (1858), novelist and journalist August Becker (1826-1891) describes the geographic and sociohistorical features of this region in southwestern....
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