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Nach Amerika! Handbuch für Auswanderer. Nach eigenen Erfahrungen geschrieben
To America!
Ever since it was discovered, America has played a major role in the dreams of European emigrants. With the mass emigration of the 19th century, a new genre became popular: self-help books. Find out what emigrants needed to know ca. 1870 in this article.
Churbaierische Mauth- und Accis-Ordnung zur allgemeinen Beobachtung vorgeschrieben im Jahre 1765” (Toll and Excise Ordinance of the Electorate of Bavaria, for General Observation, enforced in 1765) with the “Chur-Baierischen Mauth- und Accis-Tarif” (Toll and Excise Tariff of the Electorate of Bavaria) of the same year.
Eel, Apricots and Agates: The Bavarian Toll and Excise Ordinance
A Bavarian toll ordinance from 1765 gives us an insight into the people’s everyday life: what goods were transported on the roads, how were they taxed and why did the subsistence economy endure until the 19th century?
Sanctuarium profanis occlusum, sive, De SS. Bibliorum prohibitione in lingua vulgari seu vernacula tractatus; Gallice primum conscriptus anno 1651 ... Nunc Latine prodit in Germania
When the Bible Was on the Index...
Yes, it’s true. The Catholic Church prohibited its believers from reading vernacular translations of biblical texts. At the time, they thought they had good reasons for it. We present a book that summarises these reasons.
Stedman’s Nachrichten von Surinam und von seiner Expedition gegen die rebellischen Neger in dieser Kolonie in den Jahren 1772 bis 1777. Ein Auszug aus dem Englischen Original. (Neuere Geschichte der See- und Land-Reisen, Achter Band.) (English: “Stedman’s Narrative of Surinam and of his Expedition against the Revolted Negroes in this Colony in the years 1772 to 1777”. )
Five Years in Surinam – The Horrors of Slavery
In the 1770s, Scottish soldier John Stedman travelled to South America to suppress a slave uprising in a Dutch colony. His account of the atrocities inflicted on the slaves there sent shock waves throughout Europe.
Abhandlung vom Geld(= Treatise on Money)
Guillotine the Statistician!
What does it take to invent statistics? Well, a huge amount of data and a fussy character. Johann Heinrich Waser was fussy and unscrupulous enough to make use of methods that weren’t legally impeccable to obtain data. But was that the actual reason for his execution?
