Introduction print version 1. The Contours of Everyday Life 2. The Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation 3. Power and Authority in the German Territorial Principality: The “Estates Polity” 4. The Social Order 5. Economic Life 6. Cultural Life in the Aftermath of the Thirty Years War 7. The German Enlightenment’s Originality 8. Late-Enlightenment Tensions 9. Conclusion: Three Spirits of the Age 10. Brief Bibliography of Synthetic Works and General German Histories, in German and English

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