Research Catalog

Title

Small town and village in Bavaria : the passing of a way of life / Peter H. Merkl.

Author

Merkl, Peter H.

Publication

New York : Berghahn Books, 2012.

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Details

Description

xiv, 263 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

At the center of this investigation is the great modernization effort of a West German state, Bavaria, in the 1970s and 1980s, by means of a reform of the smaller units of local government. The reforms were meant to abolish all autonomous local governments serving populations of fewer than 3,000, thereby reducing the number of local governments in Bavaria from more than 7,000 to less than 2,000. Based on interviews, surveys, and statistical research, this study chronicles fifteen communties and their challenges, developments, and social changes from post-1945 up to the present. While this book explores the decline of the iconic village community, it also reveals the survival of medieval towns in a contemporary world, and despite the modern desire for comprehensive and well-integrated services, there remains a seemingly perennial appeal if small town and villiage life.--Back cover.

Subject

• 2000-2099
• Villages > Bavaria > Case studies
• Sociology, Rural > Bavaria > Case studies
• Social change > Bavaria > History > 21st century

Genre/Form

• Case studies
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Changing villages and small places in Bavaria -- The small-town or village community -- Planning local territorial reform -- The implementation of the reform -- No town is an island -- Conclusion.

ISBN

• 9780857453471 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 0857453475 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 9780857453488 (ebook)
• 0857453483 (ebook)

LCCN

^^2011039292

OCLC

• 756044597
• SCSB-11629143

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library