Friday, January 9, 2004

9:30–11:30 a.m.

29. Reconsidering the Limits of Social Control in Early Modern Germany: State Power and Powerlessness in Ulm, Augsburg, and Berlin
Marriott, Marriott Ballroom Balcony D

Chair: David W. Sabean, University of California at Los Angeles
Papers:

Plague of Vagrants and Beggars: Banishment and the Limits of Social Control in Sixteenth-Century Ulm
Jason Philip Coy, College of Charleston

Suicide by Proxy: The Unintended Consequences of Public Executions in Eighteenth-Century Germany
Kathy Stuart, University of California at Davis

Preachers, Ponytails, and Enthusiasm: On the Nature of Subversiveness in Eighteenth-Century Prussia
Michael J. Sauter, Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas

Comment: David M. Luebke, University of Oregon at Eugene