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“What You Won’t Read in Baedeker. A Short Travel Guide through the Eastern Zone” (1947)

Traditional Festivals in Germany (2015)

Crowded Cities, Deserted Countryside (July 9, 2015)

Emperor Joseph II’s Penal Patent [Strafpatent] governing Manorial Courts in the Countryside (September 1, 1781)

Prussian “Soldier King” Frederick William I Instructs his Officials on Peasant Colonization in East Prussia (July 2, 1718)

Johann Wilhelm Meil, A Woodcutter Carrying His Axe (18th century)

Frederick II (“the Great”), Memorandum to the Administration of Electoral Brandenburg on the Landlord-Peasant Relationship (1755)

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)

The Prussian Regulation Edict of 1811 (September 14, 1811)

The Legal Status of Subject Villagers in Prussia, as reflected in the General Law Code for the Prussian States (1794)

The Prussian “October Edict” of 1807 (October 9, 1807)

Jérôme [Hieronymus] Napoleon, King of Westphalia, Decree on the Abolition of Personal Serfdom in the French Satellite Kingdom of Westphalia (January 23, 1808)

Decree on the Abolition of Personal Serfdom in Schleswig-Holstein (December 19, 1804)

The Prussian Declaration of 1816, modifying the Regulation Edict of 1811 (May 29, 1816)

Anton Spreng, A Peasant Eating (19th century)

“The Education of the Countryman in Lippe” (1789)

A Protestant Pastor on Courtship and Marriage among Propertied Farmers and Tenant Farmers in Westphalia (1786)

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

Anton Josef von Prenner, Peasants Fighting (1728/1735)

The Stavenow Lordship and Surroundings, 1770

Reaping, Hauling, and Threshing Grain (c. 1740)

A Tenant Receives a Lease Contract (1750)

The Care and Storage of Agricultural Tools (1750)

A Female Beggar (18th century)