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Conservative Criticism of Women’s Activism (1852)

A Conservative Folklorist on Social Class and Gender Roles (1852)

Westphalian Nobleman Christian Franz Dietrich von Fürstenberg Provides Instructions on the Education of his Daughters (1743)

Westphalian Nobleman Clemens August Droste zu Vischering Provides Instructions on the Duties of his Children’s Tutor (1776)

Margrave Karl Friedrich von Baden, Proclamation of the Abolition of Serfdom in Baden (July 23, 1783)

Emperor Joseph II’s Patent on Serfdom [Leibeigenschaft] (November 1, 1781)

Emperor Joseph II’s Taxation and Urbarial Patent (1789)

On Child Rearing in the Villages of the Southern German Principality of Ansbach (1787)

Johanna Schopenhauer, the Daughter of a Danzig Merchant, Reflects on Her Childhood and Youth in the 1770s (published posthumously, 1839)

A Boy’s Childhood in Cologne, c. 1810 (1862)

The Early Life of a Nuremberg Tailor’s Son (1798)

Servants’ Ordinance (1703)

Sumptuary Ordinance (1703)

Exclusivity and the Entrepreneurial Class in Remscheid (1880s)

The Hunt for Decorations and Titles (January 7, 1889)

Lifestyle and Expenditures of a Public Servant’s Family in Berlin (1889)

Uneconomic Lifestyles of Workers, as Reported by Bourgeois Critics (1884 and 1889)

Working-Class Hierarchies in a Steel Factory (c. 1880)

From “du” to “Sie”: A Bourgeois Social Reformer’s Views on Workplace Relations (1880–1910)

Occupation of Fathers of Illegitimate Children Born in Leipzig (1884 and 1891)

Occupation of Mothers of Illegitimate Children Born in Berlin (1891)

Occupation of Parents of Registered Prostitutes in Berlin (1873)

Theodor Fontane on Germany’s Historical Epochs and Aristocratic Decline: The Stechlin (1899)

The Social Status of Actors, Musicians, and Visual Artists (1890)

Workers’ Conceptions of Religion (1890)