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- catalog abstract "When Washington crossed the Delaware on Christmas Eve in 1778, he attacked German farm boys hired out to the British monarchy as "mercenaries." Throughout the eighteenth century the British rented such armies from the Landgraves of Hesse-Cassel under the auspices of the so-called subsidy treaties. Forced to defend the liberties of English elites, Hessian conscripts were themselves subjected to a harsh authoritarian rule. In this engaging book, Peter K. Taylor reconstructs the world of these peasants and their families. Taylor examines the political economy of the international trade in military units and shows how Hesse's notorious system of military conscription was in fact nourished by England's demand for armies for hire. Drawing on tax records, muster lists, and parish registers, he then determines who served in the Landgraves' army, what this service required, and how the subsidy system transformed peasant families and the rural economy. Hessian soldiers, he shows, began their military life in their own villages and often spent most of their terms of service there, but as outsiders to the communities of their childhood. Providing readings of three folktales collected in Hesse-Cassel by the Brothers Grimm, Taylor considers how the conditions of conscription and military taxation in the Hessian state affected peasant kinship networks. In vivid detail, he demonstrates that peasant soldiers - and their sisters, lovers, wives, and families - helped pay for eighteenth-century advances in English liberty with their own lives and culture.".
- catalog contributor b5835321.
- catalog coverage "Hesse (Germany) Armed Forces History 18th century.".
- catalog coverage "Hesse (Germany) History.".
- catalog coverage "Hesse (Germany) Rural conditions.".
- catalog created "c1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "c1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1994.".
- catalog description "10. Peasants Tell Tales: Soldiers and Sisterly Love in Hessian Oral Tradition, 1809-1815 -- Appendix: Data Sets.".
- catalog description "Hessian soldiers, he shows, began their military life in their own villages and often spent most of their terms of service there, but as outsiders to the communities of their childhood. Providing readings of three folktales collected in Hesse-Cassel by the Brothers Grimm, Taylor considers how the conditions of conscription and military taxation in the Hessian state affected peasant kinship networks.".
- catalog description "In vivid detail, he demonstrates that peasant soldiers - and their sisters, lovers, wives, and families - helped pay for eighteenth-century advances in English liberty with their own lives and culture.".
- catalog description "Includes indexes.".
- catalog description "Taylor examines the political economy of the international trade in military units and shows how Hesse's notorious system of military conscription was in fact nourished by England's demand for armies for hire. Drawing on tax records, muster lists, and parish registers, he then determines who served in the Landgraves' army, what this service required, and how the subsidy system transformed peasant families and the rural economy.".
- catalog description "Taylor reconstructs the world of these peasants and their families.".
- catalog description "When Washington crossed the Delaware on Christmas Eve in 1778, he attacked German farm boys hired out to the British monarchy as "mercenaries." Throughout the eighteenth century the British rented such armies from the Landgraves of Hesse-Cassel under the auspices of the so-called subsidy treaties. Forced to defend the liberties of English elites, Hessian conscripts were themselves subjected to a harsh authoritarian rule. In this engaging book, Peter K.".
- catalog description "pt. I. The Interlocking Political Economies of the Subsidy System. 1. Liberty, Labor, and the English Military System, 1688-1815. 2. The Hessian State and the Developing Political Economy of Subsidies, 1600-1815 -- pt. II. The Problems of Transforming Social Labor. 3. Military Taxation, Recruitment Policy, and the Ideology of "Das Ganze Haus" 4. Patrimonial Bureaucracy and Rational Policy: Problems in the Administration of Recruitment, 1701-1773. 5. Political and Ideological Crisis in the Hessian Subsidy System, 1773-1793 -- pt. III. The Military System and the Peasant Elite between Kin and Tribute, 1736-1793. 6. Peasant Production, Tributary Authority, and the Power of the Peasant Elite. 7. Labor, Social Reproduction, and the Peasant Elite to 1762. 8. Military Reform, Social Change, and System Crisis, 1762-1793 -- pt. IV. The Culture and Class Experience of System-necessary Victims. 9. The Ambivalent Class Experience of Soldiers and Their Sisters, 1742-1809.".
- catalog extent "xvi, 275 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0801429161".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "c1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Germany Hesse".
- catalog spatial "Germany Hesse-Nassau".
- catalog spatial "Germany Hesse-Nassau.".
- catalog spatial "Germany Hesse.".
- catalog spatial "Hesse (Germany) Armed Forces History 18th century.".
- catalog spatial "Hesse (Germany) History.".
- catalog spatial "Hesse (Germany) Rural conditions.".
- catalog subject "943/.41 20".
- catalog subject "DD801.H57 T39 1994".
- catalog subject "Finance, Public Germany Hesse History 18th century.".
- catalog subject "Finance, Public Germany Hesse-Nassau History 18th century.".
- catalog subject "German mercenaries History 18th century.".
- catalog subject "Peasants Germany Hesse-Nassau.".
- catalog subject "Peasants Germany Hesse.".
- catalog tableOfContents "10. Peasants Tell Tales: Soldiers and Sisterly Love in Hessian Oral Tradition, 1809-1815 -- Appendix: Data Sets.".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. I. The Interlocking Political Economies of the Subsidy System. 1. Liberty, Labor, and the English Military System, 1688-1815. 2. The Hessian State and the Developing Political Economy of Subsidies, 1600-1815 -- pt. II. The Problems of Transforming Social Labor. 3. Military Taxation, Recruitment Policy, and the Ideology of "Das Ganze Haus" 4. Patrimonial Bureaucracy and Rational Policy: Problems in the Administration of Recruitment, 1701-1773. 5. Political and Ideological Crisis in the Hessian Subsidy System, 1773-1793 -- pt. III. The Military System and the Peasant Elite between Kin and Tribute, 1736-1793. 6. Peasant Production, Tributary Authority, and the Power of the Peasant Elite. 7. Labor, Social Reproduction, and the Peasant Elite to 1762. 8. Military Reform, Social Change, and System Crisis, 1762-1793 -- pt. IV. The Culture and Class Experience of System-necessary Victims. 9. The Ambivalent Class Experience of Soldiers and Their Sisters, 1742-1809.".
- catalog title "Indentured to liberty : peasant life and the Hessian military state, 1688-1815 / Peter K. Taylor.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".