The Origin and Evolution of the Germanic Village Community
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Authors
Schnebelt, Susan Elizabeth
Issue Date
1969
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Thesis
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en_US
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Abstract
Many scholars have devoted much time and given much
thought to the question of the origin of New England towns.
Of the theories of origin which ensued from this thought,
the one which has drawn the most interest and created the
greatest controversy among historical scholars is that of
Germanic origins. This theory of Germanic origins of New
England towns is an extension of ideas discussed by German
historians regarding the government and agriculture
of the early Germanic tribes, and of theories developed
by English historians regarding the resultant Saxon institutions
on British soil. Of the historians who dealt with
this question, an American,Herbert Baxter Adams, has most
successfully summarized the German and British theories
and related them to the earliest New England settlements.
Mr. Adams devoted a forty page thesis to an explanation
of this theory. In this thesis, he sought to make
known and understood the importance of New England towns
in the creation of American ideals of individuality and
democracy. He then sought the roots of these ideas and
found them to be Teutonic in origin, thereby, he felt,
irrevocably linking the two civilizations together. Upon
what basis did he build this theory? From what sources
had he drawn information enough concerning the three
countries to justify such a conclusion?
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iv, 61 p.
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