Hi - Can anyone recommend a good book on the Hesse - Rheinpfalz area? I have newly-found ancestors from Neider Weisen, Wallertheim and want to know more about the history and particulars of the region. Kathy Howard _________________________________________________________________ Get a FREE online computer virus scan from McAfee when you click here. http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963

----- Original Message ----- From: "Kathryn Howard" <km_howard@msn.com> To: <HESSE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 11:10 AM Subject: [HESSE] Good book on Rheinpfalz? > Hi - > > Can anyone recommend a good book on the Hesse - Rheinpfalz area? I have > newly-found ancestors from Neider Weisen, Wallertheim and want to know more > about the history and particulars of the region. > > Kathy Howard > The Hessian mercenary state: ideas, institutions, and reform under Frederick II, 1760-1785, Ingrao, Charles W. Cambridge University Press, 1987. SUBJECT: Hesse (Germany) -- History -- Landgraviate, 1567-1806. Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, 1720-1785. Capitalism, the state, and the Lutheran Reformation: sixteenth-century Hesse. Wright, William John. Athens : Ohio University Press, c1988. SUBJECT: Reformation -- Germany -- Hesse. The splintered party: national liberalism in Hessen and the Reich, 1867-1918. White, Dan S. Harvard University Press, 1976. Hesse (Germany) -- Politics and government -- 1871-1918.century Indentured to liberty: peasant life and the Hessian military state, 1688-1815 Peter K. Taylor. Cornell University Press, c1994. SUBJECT: Peasantry -- Germany -- Hesse History -- 18th century. -- Armed Forces The Survival of the Hessian Nobility 1770-1870, Gregory W. Pedlow Prinston University Press Germany's Rude Awakening, Censorship in the Land of the Brothers Grimm, Frederic Ohles, Kent State University Press Georg Pausch's journal and reports of the campaign in America: as translated from the German manuscript in the Lidgerwood Collection in the Morristown National Historical Park Archives, Morristown, NJ / by Bruce E. Burgoyne. Heritage Books, 1996. Enemy views: the American Revolutionary War as recorded by the Hessian participants / compiled, edited, and with an introduction by Bruce E. Burgoyne; and with a foreword by John Gardner. Heritage Books, 1996. Notes on Hessian soldiers who remained in Canada and the United States after the American Revolution, 1775-1784. Smith, Clifford Neal. Westland Publications, 1992-<1996> Incomplete contents: pt. 1. Deserters by places of origin -- pt. 2. Deserters by regiment and company -- pt. 3. Deserters by date of defection -- pt. 4. Index to parts 1 through 3 surnames: A. Hessian troops in the American Revolution: extracts from the Hetrina, Kelly, Arthur C. M. SUBJECT: - History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 - German mercenaries. Deserters and disbanded soldiers from British, German, and loyalist military units in the South, 1782 Smith, Clifford Neal. Westland Publications, 1991 SERIES: British-American genealogical research ; monograph no. 10 SUBJECT: United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Desertions -- Registers. A Hessian diary of the American Revolution / by Johann Conrad DÞohla ; translated, edited, and with an introduction by Bruce E. Burgoyne from the 1913 Bayreuth edition by W. Baron von Waldenfels. University of Oklahoma Press, c1990. Translation of: Tagebuch eines Bayreuth Soldaten des Johann Conrad DÞohla aus dem Nordamerikanischen Freiheitskrieg von 1777 bis 1783. Eighteenth century America : a Hessian report on the people, the land, the war, as noted in the diary of Chaplain Philipp Waldeck (1776-1780) / translated from Hessian Manuscript #28 of the Bancroft Collection in the New York Public Library by Bruce E. Burgoyne. Heritage Books, 1995 Geschichte des Kurstaates und KÞonigreiches Sachsen BÞottiger, Karl Wilhelm, 1790-1862. Hamburg : F. Perthes, 1830-1873. SERIES: Geschichte der europÞaischen Staaten e and published in Gotha, SUBJECT: Saxony (Germany) -- History. Saxony in German history: culture, society, and politics, 1830-1933 / edited by James Retallack ; with a foreword by Hartmut Zwahr. University of Michigan Press, c2000. SERIES: Social history, popular culture, and politics in Saxony (Germany) -- Social life and customs -- Politics and government -- Saxony Die Bewegung in Baden, von Ende des Februar 1848 bis zur Mitte des Mai 1849, von J. B. Bekk. Bekk, J. B. (Johann Baptist), 1797-1855. SUBJECT: Baden (Germany) -- History -- Revolution, 1848-1849. War, state and society in Württemberg, 1677-1793 / Peter H. Wilson. Cambridge University Press, 1995. SERIES: Cambridge studies in early modern history SUBJECT: Württemberg -- History -- 18th -- Politics and government. The nation as a local metaphor: Württemberg, imperial Germany, and national memory, 1871-1918 / Alon Confino. University of North Carolina Press, c1997. SUBJECT: Nationalism -- Germany -- Württemberg. -- Politics and government -- 1871-1918. Piety and politics: religion and the rise of absolutism in England, Württemberg, and Prussia Fulbrook, Mary, 1951 Cambridge University Press, 1983. SUBJECT: Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1603-1714. The making of a state: Württemberg, 1593-1793 Vann, James Allen, Cornell University Press, 1984. SUBJECT: Württemberg (Germany) -- Politics and government. Holy Roman Empire -- Politics and government. The politics of the Prussian nobility : the development of a conservative ideology, 1770-1848 / Robert M. Berdahl. Princeton University Press, c1988. SUBJECT: Prussia (Germany) -- Politics and government -- 1740-1815 -- 1806-1848. A community in conflict: Frankfurt society in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Gerald Lyman Published for Brandeis University Press by the University Press of New England, 1974. SUBJECT: Frankfurt am Main (Germany) -- Social conditions. -- Politics and government. German knighthood, 1050-1300 / Benjamin Arnold. Clarendon Press, 1985. SUBJECT: Knights and knighthood -- Germany -- History. Princes and territories in medieval Germany / Benjamin Arnold. Cambridge University Press, 1991. SUBJECT: Germany -- Politics and government -- To 1517. Nobility -- Germany Count and bishop in medieval Germany : a study of regional power, 1100-1350 / Benjamin Arnold. University of Pennsylvania Press, c1991. SUBJECT: Germany -- Politics and government -- To 1517. Regionalism Nobility -- Germany -- History.