Survival of the Hessian Nobility, 1770-1870

Here is a broad and richly documented examination of a little studied social group--the German nobility outside Prussia. Gregory Pedlow considers the nobles of the small but representative state of Hesse-Kassel from the end of the ancien regime to the era of German unification. Although this period has been most often described in terms of the "e;triumph of the bourgeoisie,"e; the author shows tha...