Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments vii
3. Contents ix
4. Foreword to the Cornell Paperbacks Edition xiii
5. Introduction 1
6. Part One. THE HOME TOWNS
7. CHAPTER I. The Incubator 11
8. CHAPTER II. The Civic Community 34
9. CHAPTER III. Guilds 73
10. CHAPTER IV. Walls, Webs, and Citizens 108
11. Part Two. MEETING WITH THE STATE
12. CHAPTER V. Cameralism and Community 145
13. CHAPTER VI. Napoleonic Power in Germany 185
14. CHAPTER VII . Weissenburg, 1780 - 1825 217
15. CHAPTER VIII. Community Identified 248
16. Part Three. MEETING WITH THE GENERAL ESTATE
17. CHAPTER IX. Undermining the Walls 283
18. CHAPTER X. Biedermeier 307
19. CHAPTER XI. Eighteen Forty-Eight 354
20. CHAPTER XII. Death and Transfiguration 405
21. Appendix. THE IMPERIAL TRADES EDICT OF 1731 433
22. Abbreviations and Citations 452
23. Index 465