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The Survival of the Hessian Nobility, 1770-1870
By (Author) Gregory W. Pedlow
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Social classes
943.41
Hardback
320
Width 178mm, Height 254mm
765g
Here is a broad and richly documented examination of a little studied social group--the German nobility outside Prussia. Gregory Pedlow considers the nobles of the small but representative state of Hesse-Kassel from the end of the ancien regime to the era of German unification. Although this period has been most often described in terms of the "tri