TY  - BOOK
AU  - Carsten,F.L.
TI  - The origins of Prussia
AV  - DD 347 C3.1954
PY  - 1954///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Clarendon Press
KW  - Prussia (Germany)
KW  - History
KW  - Prusia (Alemania) -
KW  - Historia
N1  - Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice; I. The colonization -- The conquest and conversion of the Slavs and Prussians -- The settlement of Brandenburg and Pomerania -- The German and Slav peasants and their rights -- The towns and their privileges -- The Teutonic knights and the settlement of Prussia -- Medieval colonial society at its prime -- II. The rise of the Junkers -- The weakness of the territorial princes -- The agrarian crisis -- The decline of the Hanseatic towns on the Baltic -- The subjugation of the Brandenburg and Pomeranian towns -- The decline of the peasantry and the imposition of serfdom -- The rule of the estates -- III. The foundation of the Hohenzollern despotism -- The Great Elector's victory over the estates of Brandenburg -- The defeat of the estates of Prussia -- The conflict with the estates of Cleves and Mark -- The state of the Great Elector -- Appendix: Princes in Prussia between 1395 and 1461
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