Community in Historical Perspective

Table of Contents

Preface
Note on the translations
Life of Otto von Gierke
List of the major works of Otto von Gierke
Editor's introduction
Glossary
Part I. The German Law of Fellowship: Volume I. The Legal and Moral History of the German Fellowship: Preface to volume I
Introduction: the meaning of association, scope and plan of the work
1. The five periods of European history
2. Up to AD 800
the feudal system
3. Free union: gilds and craft gilds
4. The medieval cities
5. The golden age of the craft gilds
6. Political unions, city leagues, the Hansa
7. The Empire as union
8. Rural communes and federations: Switzerland and North Germany
9. The estates, representation and the territorial state
10. The peasantry and rural fellowships
11. Corporations and the sovereign state, 1525–1806
12. Rural communities, 1525–1806
13. Towns and cities from 1525 to the present
14. Parliamentary representation and the development of the modern state
15. The Empire, 1525–1806
16. Fellowships under benevolent despotism, 1525–1806
17. Free fellowships for economic purposes from 1525 to the present
18. Economic fellowships based on property: the joint-stock company
19. Economic fellowships based on personality: the producers' co-operative
Part II. The German Law of Fellowship: Volume II. The History of the German Concept of Corporation: Outline of contents
Preface
Introduction
20. The concept of fellowship
21. Corporation and institution
Part III. The German Law of Fellowship: Volume III. The Doctrine of State and Corporation in the Ancient World and the Middle Ages, and its Reception in Germany: Introduction: the genesis of the academic theory of state and corporation
Notes
Index.

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