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Walker, Mack was born on June 6, 1929 in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Gilbert Creighton and Lavinia Pillsbury (Mack) Walker.
(As the most learned and eminent public lawyer in Germany,...)
As the most learned and eminent public lawyer in Germany, a busy administrator, and a prolific writer, Moser (1701-85) lived and breathed the political order. His correspondence, memoranda, and manuscript autobiography reflect the intricate day-to-day operations of the empire, and his fascinating life is a microcosm of the life and style of the empire itself. The biography provided a comprehensive picture of the empire between the Thirty Years War and the revolutionary era. Originally published 1981. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
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( German Home Towns is a social biography of the hometown...)
German Home Towns is a social biography of the hometown Bürger from the end of the seventeenth to the beginning of the twentieth centuries. After his opening chapters on the political, social, and economic basis of town life, Mack Walker traces a painful process of decline that, while occasionally slowed or diverted, leads inexorably toward death and, in the twentieth century, transfiguration. Along the way, he addresses such topics as local government, corporate economies, and communal society. Equally important, he illuminates familiar aspects of German history in compelling ways, including the workings of the Holy Roman Empire, the Napoleonic reforms, and the revolution of 1848 Finally, Walker examines German liberalism's underlying problem, which was to define a meaning of freedom that would make sense to both the "movers and doers" at the center and the citizens of the home towns. In the book's final chapter, Walker traces the historical extinction of the towns and their transformation into ideology. From the memory of the towns, he argues, comes Germans' "ubiquitous yearning for organic wholeness," which was to have its most sinister expression in National Socialism's false promise of a racial community. A path-breaking work of scholarship when it was first published in 1971, German Home Towns remains an influential and engaging account of German history, filled with interesting ideas and striking insights—on cameralism, the baroque, Biedermeier culture, legal history and much more. In addition to the inner workings of community life, this book includes discussions of political theorists like Justi and Hegel, historians like Savigny and Eichhorn, philologists like Grimm. Walker is also alert to powerful long-term trends—the rise of bureaucratic states, the impact of population growth, the expansion of markets—and no less sensitive to the textures of everyday life.
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(In 1731-32 the archbishopric of Salzburg expelled about 2...)
In 1731-32 the archbishopric of Salzburg expelled about 20,000 Protestant farmers from the alpine districts above the city. The episode provoked a sharp confessional confrontation that threatened to destroy the political equilibrium of the Holy Roman Empire. In this elegant book Mack Walker provides the fullest available account of the expulsion.
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Walker, Mack was born on June 6, 1929 in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Gilbert Creighton and Lavinia Pillsbury (Mack) Walker.
AB, Bowdoin College, 1950; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1959.
Instructor Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, 1957-1959. Instructor, assistant professor Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1959-1966. Associate professor, professor Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 1966-1974.
Professor Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1974-1999, department chairman, 1979-1982, professor emeritus, since 1999. Sergeant United States Army Reserve, 1951-1953.
(As the most learned and eminent public lawyer in Germany,...)
(As the most learned and eminent public lawyer in Germany,...)
( German Home Towns is a social biography of the hometown...)
(In 1731-32 the archbishopric of Salzburg expelled about 2...)
Sergeant United States Army, 1951-1953. Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences.
Married Irma Julianne Wiesinger, 1954. Children: Barbara B., Gilbert C., Benjamin F.