| Description |
1 online resource (277 pages) |
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| Contents |
Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 -- Changing Villages and Small Places in Bavaria; Chapter 2 -- The Small-town or Village Community; Chapter 3 -- Planning Local Territorial Reform; Chapter 4 -- The Implementation of the Reform; Chapter 5 -- No Town is an Island; Chapter 6 -- Conclusion; Appendix -- Tables; Select Bibliography and Government Documents; Index. |
| 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 3000, 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 communities and their challenges, developments, and social changes from post-1945 up to the present. While this book. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Villages -- Germany -- Bavaria -- Case studies.
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Villages. |
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Germany -- Bavaria. |
| Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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| Subject |
Sociology, Rural -- Germany -- Bavaria -- Case studies.
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Sociology, Rural. |
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Social change -- Germany -- Bavaria -- History -- 21st century.
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Social change. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
21st century |
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2000-2099 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Case studies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Merkl, Peter H. Small Town and Village in Bavaria : The Passing of a Way of Life. New York : Berghahn Books, ©2012 9780857453471 |
| ISBN |
9780857453488 (electronic book) |
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0857453483 (electronic book) |
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0857453475 |
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9780857453471 |
| Standard No. |
9786613591913 |
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