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Title: War, State and Society in Württemberg, 1677-1793 by Peter H. Wilson, John Elliott, Olwen Hufton, H. G. Koenigsberger, H. M. Scott ISBN: 0-521-48331-X Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 23 March, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $37.00

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Summary: Not An Historical Account of Wurttemberg
Comment: This is not the book to read for an historical overview of Wurttemberg. The research is impeccable, however Wilson proves it in excruciating detail using a sloppy vehicle, jumping back and forth between generations, (sometimes by a hundred years or more), to make a point. Unfortunately, the overwhelming number of his points have to do with military expenditures, such as the cost of uniforms, room and board for various regiments of the Wurttemberg armies, etc. His primary aim with this work is to show that the grandiose dynastic ambitions of lesser Dukes, like the Wurttembergers, ran up against a brick wall of the infrastructure of the old German Reich. I kept hoping that the work would be set against a broader backdrop of history, (sadly, there was only one inadequate map of the region, which did not even put Wurttemberg into context within the larger Reich). The discussion of amter, and other geographical divisions, in Wurttemberg could have been more interesting if a list or map of each were included. Wilson presumes that his reader already knows a great deal of the history of Wurttemberg, the Reich and the political environment of the times. To the layman, who is learning much of this upon first reading, the facts are not sewn together neatly. Neither is this a genealogical account of the Dukes of Wurttemberg. Wilson is not using 'family' as the glue to his tale. Very little time is spent on that front. Finally, these Dukes had names that sound so similar, (Wilhelm Ludwig, Eberhard Ludwig, Ludwig Eugen, Friedrich Eugen, etc.) that it would have helped immensely for Wilson to refer to them by nicknames as he did with 'Louis the Turk'. I spent most of my time referring back to the family tree shown on page 14. The author obviously knows his subject. I wish he would revise the work and fill in the larger canvas. I would purchase that new edition!